March 17, 2014

PENTAGON POLICY NOMINEES CONFIRMATION HEARING SET FOR FEB. 25

By ExchangeMonitor

Nominated this week by President Obama to serve as the top two Pentagon policy officials, Christine Wormuth and Brian McKeon will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 25. Wormuth was nominated to be the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, while McKeon was nominated to be the Principal Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Former DoD policy chief Jim Miller left the Pentagon last month. The hearing will take place at 9:30 a.m. in Room G50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Wormuth has served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Forces since 2012, and previously served as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for defense policy on the National Security Staff from 2010 to 2012. McKeon has served since 2012 as the Deputy Assistant to the President, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, and Chief of Staff for the National Security Staff at the White House. Previously, he worked as the Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President from 2009 to 2012, and served as the deputy staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1997 to 2009.

While the hearing has been scheduled, it’s anyone’s guess how long it will take for Wormuth and McKeon to be confirmed. More than 100 nominees remain logjammed in the Senate, including Frank Klotz, the Obama Administration’s nominee to be NNSA Administrator, and NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator nominee Madelyn Creedon.

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