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...He was tapped during then-president Donald Trump’s administration as acting head of the Department of Defense....
...Board chairman Robert Johnson said Shanahan was “a seasoned executive” whose three decades of experience at Boeing and time as acting US Secretary of Defense would “ensure a smooth transition” as the board...
...In October, Tom Gentile, Spirit’s chief executive, departed abruptly and was replaced on an interim basis by Patrick Shanahan, a 31-year Boeing veteran who was briefly acting secretary of state for defence...
...Former chief executive Tom Gentile was replaced as head of Spirit in October by Patrick Shanahan, who worked at Boeing for three decades before his turn as acting US Secretary of Defence....
...The board named Patrick Shanahan, the former acting US secretary of defence who worked for three decades at Boeing, as interim head of the company....
...from Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, on Thursday....
...Like one way or the other, I’m getting back to acting....
...Brigadier General Patrick Ryder, its press secretary, said VanHerck had ordered the Alaskan component of Norad to “identify and monitor the high altitude balloon” and that he had determined that “it did...
...Banks of secretaries and assistants made way for the company’s mergers and acquisitions team, which was moved on to his floor....
...He managed to escape from the office on the night of St Patrick’s Day to celebrate at a nearby Irish pub named after James Joyce....
...I’m here to see one of them: Molly Jahn, a plant scientist, agricultural risk consultant, professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin and one of the newest of 12 programme managers in Darpa’s Defense...
...Johnson denies that Britain acted unlawfully and said he was acting to smooth trade across the Irish Sea, by extending “grace periods” that ease the impact of Brexit red tape on Northern Irish businesses...
...President Donald Trump has announced that the acting US defence secretary Patrick Shanahan was stepping down from the post and withdrawing his nomination as the permanent head of the Pentagon....
...Kaldahl, acting assistant secretary, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, said in the letter dated August 6. “Any persecution of Dr Aljabri’s family members is unacceptable....
...Following Mr Mattis’s departure, Patrick Shanahan was named acting defence secretary....
...President Donald Trump intends to nominate Patrick Shanahan, the acting US secretary of defence, as the permanent head of the Pentagon, the White House said Thursday....
...The Pentagon plans to eject Turkey from the F-35 programme next month in response to its planned purchase of a Russian defence system, according to a letter from the acting US defence secretary....
...Patrick Shanahan, the acting US defence secretary, on Tuesday attempted to ease concerns about possible military conflict with Iran by stressing that the Trump administration was not seeking war....
...Patrick Shanahan, US defence secretary, stepped down in June after USA Today reported that the FBI had been looking into allegations of domestic violence within the Shanahan family....
...Earlier this week Patrick Shanahan, the US acting defence secretary, said America’s goal was deterrence, not war....
...Hulusi Akar, Turkey’s defence minister, used a telephone call with his American counterpart, Patrick Shanahan, to protest at a deadline imposed by the acting US defence secretary in a letter last week....
...Speaking in Washington ahead of a meeting on Monday with Patrick Shanahan, acting US defence secretary, Ms Parly said a US decision to pull back from European defence and “do its own thing” could come back...
...Separately on Friday, Mr Trump nominated Mark Esper, the army secretary, to be his new defence secretary following the resignation of Patrick Shanahan as the acting Pentagon chief....
...Investors are also watching geopolitical tensions between the US and Iran even as acting US defence secretary Patrick Shanahan attempted to ease concerns about possible military conflict with Tehran by saying...
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