Kari Bingen is an American policy analyst and government official who served as Principal Deputy

Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence The under secretary of defense for intelligence and security or USD(I&S) is a high-ranking civilian position in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that acts as the principal civilian advisor ...

, the second-highest ranking civilian intelligence job in

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. She was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2017 and sworn in on June 5, 2017. According to a Pentagon spokesman, Bingen resigned on December 5, 2019 and will leave the Pentagon on January 10, 2020. The spokesman added that this is a normal rotation. Bingen is a former staff member of the

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(HASC), where she served on the strategic forces subcommittee and as the HASC's policy director. Prior to her work with the federal government, Bingen was a senior space policy analyst at

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and an engineer at SRA International.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bingen, Kari Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Trump administration personnel United States Under Secretaries of Defense American women of Japanese descent in politics Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women