Ashton Baldwin Carter was Deputy Secretary of Defense from October 2011 to December 2013, serving as DOD?s chief operating officer overseeing more than $600 billion per year and 2.4 million civilian and military personnel, and managing global 24/7 operations. From April 2009 to October 2011, he was Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics with responsibility for procurement of all technology, systems, services, and supplies, bases and infrastructure, energy and environment, and more than $50 billion annually in R&D. In his five years in the Pentagon's #2 and #3 positions, Ash led two major reviews of national security strategy and budget that were adopted by the President and Secretary of Defense, including the Asia-Pacific "pivot" and the new cyber warfare strategy formulated the current DOD investment strategies for cyber/enterprise IT, space, manned and unmanned systems, intelligence and reconnaissance systems, special forces, counterterrorism and counter-weapons of mass destruction, energy innovation, healthcare, logistics and supply chain, personnel, and all other aspects of operations, technology, and R&D including funding for DARPA and NSA 

September 14th, 1954 in Philadelphia  /  Died:   Oct 24th, 2022