The president will nominate RAND Arroyo Center Director David Chu for the position of under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, the White House announced today. Also, Charles Abell, a majority staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the president's pick for assistant secretary of defense for force management, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer announced. Chu was the assistant secretary of defense for program analysis and evaluation from 1988 through 1992. Since then he has worked at...
