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President Obama today announced his intent to nominate Christine Fox as the Pentagon's new director of cost assessment and program evaluation.

Fox, president of the Center for Naval Analyses, has nearly 30 years of experience as analyst and research manager focused on defense issues, according to a White House announcement. At CNA, she oversees the federally funded research and development center's work on operations, cost and acquisition, manpower, readiness and technology issues.

Before becoming CNA president, she was vice president and director of CNA's Operations Evaluation Group, the announcement adds. Fox, also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, received a B.S. in mathematics from George Mason University and an M.S. in applied mathematics also from George Mason.