Griffin recruits new SCO director from NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

By Jason Sherman / January 7, 2020 at 3:06 PM
Mike Griffin, the Pentagon's top technology officer, has recruited a senior NASA appointee to head the Strategic Capabilities Office, setting the stage for the start of a new chapter for an organization that was the object of a bureaucratic turf fight during much of 2019 that Griffin waged and lost. Jay Dryer, deputy associate administrator for programs in NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, will become SCO director -- a senior executive service billet -- on Jan. 21, Pentagon spokesman Lt...

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