Ashton B. Carter to be Defense Secretary nominee

December 2, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
Nation

Ashton B. Carter will be President Obama’s nomination for Secretary of Defense, sources say. Carter, a physicist worked for a year as Deputy Defense Secretary at the Pentagon. If approved by the Senate, Carter will replace Chuck Hagel, who recently announced his resignation. Carter holds a degree in theoretical physics from Oxford University and degrees in physics and medieval history from Yale. He joined the Pentagon in 1981 as a civilian program and technical analyst.