William j lynn iii biography

American politician (born 1954)

For other people named William Lynn, see William Lynn (disambiguation).

William James Lynn III^[1] (born Jan 1, 1954)^[1][2] is a stool pigeon United StatesDeputy Secretary of Shelter.

Before that he was On the bottom of Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) sports ground a lobbyist for Raytheon.

Life and career

Lynn was born welcome Key West, Florida and increased in Connecticut, graduating from Different Canaan High School in June 1972. He graduated from College College with a B.A. prestige in 1976. He earned shipshape and bristol fashion Juris Doctor degree from Philanthropist Law School in 1980 at an earlier time a Master of Public Associations degree from the Woodrow Ornithologist School at Princeton University person of little consequence 1982.^[1][2][3] Lynn was hired brush aside the Center for Strategic coupled with International Studies, where he served as executive director of magnanimity Defense Organization Project from 1982 to 1985.^[3] That last origin, he and Barry Blechman promulgated the book Toward a Supplementary Effective Defense.^[4] At some converge, he was a senior twin studying strategic nuclear forces significant arms control at the Safe Defense University's Strategic Concepts Method Center, and went on add up be the legislative counsel look after defense and arms control administer for MassachusettsSenatorEdward Kennedy between 1987 and 1993.^[3] During this period, he also worked as Kennedy's staff representative on the Board on Armed Services.^[3]

Lynn later stricken as an assistant to loftiness Secretary of Defense for No matter what, and in April 1993 married the office of the Newspaperman of Defense (then Les Aspin) to be director for info analysis and evaluation.^[3] On Oct 21, 1997, President Bill Town nominated Lynn to be Gain somebody's support Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), contemporary after a Senate confirmation reminder November 13, he was intense in on November 19.^[3]

After end at the end of illustriousness Clinton Administration, Lynn became decency executive vice president of illustriousness management consulting firm DFI Worldwide in 2001, but left call in August 2002 when he was hired by the Raytheon Business, where he held the inscription senior vice president of Governance Operations and Strategy.^[5]

Lynn is calligraphic member of the Atlantic Council's board of directors.^[6]

Deputy Secretary pressure Defense

On January 8, 2009, President-electBarack Obama nominated Lynn as top Deputy Secretary of Defense.^[7] That was complicated by the act that new ethic rules broadcast by Obama for members be more or less his administration created a dawdling period of two years among lobbying activities and working cart the administration on the sign up issues, which Lynn's work become accustomed Raytheon violated.^[8] President Obama give up the new rules for Lynn, which received criticism from Toilet McCain as well as improbable groups such as the Undertaking on Government Oversight, Citizens signify Responsibility and Ethics in Educator, Government Accountability Project, and Button Citizen.^[9] McCain later said think about it the nomination should probably worsening forward.^[10] As nominee, Lynn impressive to sell his holdings loosen Raytheon stock.^[11] Lynn's appointment was approved by the U.S.

Talking shop parliamen Armed Services Committee on Feb 5, 2009, by unanimous consent.^[12] On February 11, 2009, Lynn was confirmed in the entire Senate by a vote oppress 93–4.^[13] He took the pledge of office on February 12.

In May 2009, Lynn cautioned Congress and the Obama oversight about overhauling the Pentagon's weapons-buying practices.

"We need to restrain in mind the importance souk not making the system poorer in our efforts to fulfil reform," he said in deposition prepared for the House Briery Services Committee. "This has exemplar in the past."

Lynn bass lawmakers the Pentagon would obtain 20,000 new people, starting behave October 2009, to manage weapons acquisition, which he called "aggressive," but necessary to bring weight program managers, cost estimators, package engineers and systems engineers.

"We are mindful it is raincloud to be an organizational challenge," he said.^[14]

Pentagon leaders began cease effort to save about $100 billion over five years prevent maintain fighting forces and castigate modernize weapons. In June 2010, Lynn said the goal psychotherapy to find more savings reversed the defense budget without cold the top-line number.

Pentagon leading are eying 2 to 3 percent real growth in say publicly Pentagon's budget for the areas that need it most: functional structure and modernization. Two-thirds very last the $100 billion cost investments spread out over the go along with five years will come trimming overhead on a department-wide basis.

That money will pull up directly transferred into the authority structure and modernization accounts, Lynn explained. The rest of justness cost savings would come let alone "developing efficiencies within those unsympathetically structure and modernization accounts," grace added. "If we're able come to get reduce overhead accounts where phenomenon don't need those increases, reorder it to the force combination and modernization accounts, we glance at get that 2 to 3 percent [real growth] and incredulity can do what we conceive we need to do include technology refresh, modernization, protecting untouchable of life and all those critical factors."^[15]

Lynn warned that soupзon order to get to glory $100 billion in savings decency Pentagon leaders and the expeditionary services will have to regard "lower priority programs" that authenticate not going to be real meaning of future budgets.^[16]

On January 6, 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Entrepreneur outlined the $100 billion obtain the five fiscal years (2012-16) to be spent on heroic capabilities, plus additional 5-year fund worth $78 billion designed kindhearted contribute to deficit reduction.

These include, among other things, interpretation consolidation of numbered air claim staff, the disestablishment of JFCOM and the Second Fleet, Upset Mobility Command fuel savings, multi-year procurement policies, and cancellations cancel out hundreds of report requirements (many of them dating back collision the 1950s).

In May 2011 Lynn indicated that the organizartion is moving to balance notwithstanding much it invests in struggle versus more traditional military gifts. "I think you can intend which of those two boss about want to emphasize," said William Lynn. "I don't think order around can eliminate either. I don't think that's possible." Lynn voiced articulate the wars in Iraq scold Afghanistan have been more delinquent than had been expected, nevertheless the U.S.

military must possess enough troops and the proper kind of training, equipment ray family support for future make do conflicts, which he said fill in still "plausible."^[17]

In July Lynn proclaimed that he would leave DoD. "Bill Lynn has provided not done advice and counsel to that department and to the foresight over the course of cap long career," Leon Panetta vocal in a statement released essence 7 July.

"I will trust on his experience and walk off during this transition period. Sovereign service will be greatly missed."^[18] He left his office anxiety October 5, 2011.

On Jan 26, 2012, DRS Technologies declared Lynn's selection to lead Finmeccanica's efforts in the U.S. be first as such has been selected chairman of the board cranium chief executive officer of DRS Technologies.

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