Ellen M. Lord is an American businesswoman and government official who previously served as the
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, or USD(A&S), is the Principal Staff Assistant (PSA) and advisor to the Secretary of Defense for all matters relating to acquisition and sustainment in the Department of Defense. Thi ...
in the
Trump administration
Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021. Trump, a Republican from New York City, took office following his Electoral College victory ...
. She was previously the CEO of
Textron
Textron Inc. is an American industrial conglomerate based in Providence, Rhode Island. Textron's subsidiaries include Arctic Cat, Bell Textron, Textron Aviation (which itself includes the Beechcraft, and Cessna brands), and Lycoming Engin ...
Systems, a global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies industrial conglomerate. In her position, she was the chief weapons purchaser for the United States, responsible for overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and services acquisitions programs in the
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national sec ...
.
Lord served as vice chairwoman of the
National Defense Industrial Association
The National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) is a trade association for the United States government and defense industrial base. It is an 501(c)3 educational organization. Its headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia. NDIA was established ...
and as a member of the
Center for a New American Security
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a Washington, D.C. based think tank established in 2007 by co-founders Michèle Flournoy, board member of military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, and Kurt M. Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Paci ...
's task force on strategy, technology, and the global defense industry. She was also a board member of the Defense Technology Initiative, the Naval Institute Foundation, and the U.S.-India Business Council.
Lord left the Pentagon in January 2021, after which she joined the consultancy firm the Chertoff Group as a senior advisor,
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab as a senior fellow, military contractor AAR as a director, Voyager Space as a director, Clarifai, an artificial-intelligence corporation, as a senior advisor, military contractor
SAIC as a strategic advisor, and the electro-optical/infrared corporation GEOST as a director.
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Biography at the Department of Defense
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Living people
Trump administration personnel
United States Under Secretaries of Defense
21st-century American businesspeople
American women in politics
University of New Hampshire alumni
Connecticut College alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American businesswomen