Trump Picks ‘Mr. Fix-It’ to Run Daily Ops at Pentagon
Pat Shanahan, then-senior vice president of Airplane Programs for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, greets guests at a re-opening ceremony for Boeing's newly expanded 737 delivery center in Seattle in 2015.
By Marcus Weisgerber Read bio
March 16, 2017
Patrick Shanahan’s missile-defense background could prove important in a Trump administration.
Patrick Shanahan has been known to clean up troubled programs at Boeing. His portfolio is about to get much larger.
That’s because President Trump on Thursday said he would nominate Shanahan — currently the senior vice president of supply chain and operations at the Chicago-based aerospace and defense giant — to become deputy defense secretary.
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