Ashton Carter
Ashton Baldwin Carter (born September 14, 1954) is a United States national security professional serving as the United States Deputy Secretary of ... More »
Pentagon has resources to implement Asia strategy: Carter
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter adjusts his glasses during his meeting with Japanese Senior Vice Defence Minister Shu Watanabe in Tokyo July 20, 2012. WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 3, 2012 6:42pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday ... Read more »
Pentagon says budget cuts could hurt Afghan war effort, warns of major furloughs ahead
"There will be second-order effects on the war," Ashton Carter, the deputy defense secretary, said in an interview in his office with a small group of reporters. Deferred maintenance on weapons and other equipment, for example, will eventually erode the combat fitness of military units ... Read more »
Ashton Carter Deputy Secretary of Defense Paints The Future Of The US Military
Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter gave a talk to the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank that develops an immense amount of defense policy in D.C. While he was there and speaking to a room full of defense insiders, wonks, academics and ... Read more »
Obama criticized for considering Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary
A top White House advisor said Friday that Obama was still considering Hagel, but that he was also looking at Michele Flournoy, who was Pentagon undersecretary for policy in Obama's first term, and Ashton Carter, the current deputy secretary, the Defense Department's second-ranking ... Read more »
Pentagon aims to wring savings out of more acquisition reforms
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the first version of the initiative, launched in 2010 when he was the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, had generated some savings, but there was more work to do. "We've tried things that have worked, we've tried things that haven't worked. We've ... Read more »
The Center for Public Integrity: Will the $55 billion bomber program fly?
" In May last year, Ashton Carter, the deputy secretary of defense, met with executives from Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Lockheed Martin to discuss the bomber and its technologies in Palmdale. "His intent was to understand what was resident in various contractors' capabilities," a ... Read more »
China cyber capability endangers U.S. forces: report
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, without referring to the report, said Thursday that he was not even "remotely satisfied" with U.S. ability to deal with cyberwarfare. Pentagon spending on cyber capabilities was not really constrained by scarce funds, Carter told an industry ... Read more »
Pentagon official blames gridlock for looming cuts
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter urged lawmakers to put aside their partisan differences and head off the reductions, saying the looming cuts known as sequestration are "particularly tragic" because they are avoidable. "It's not because discretionary spending cuts are the answer to ... Read more »
68,000 U.S. military personnel fight today in Afghanistan, Carter said
Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter gave a solemn speech on Veterans Day, November 11, 2012. During which he thanked those who are currently serving in the military and reminded others that 68,000 U.S. military personnel are fighting right now in Afghanistan. “I’m here on behalf ... Read more »
Carter on a mission to foster closer U.S. military ties in Iraq
The Pentagon announced that Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has landed in Iraq to attend a high level meeting with president Nouri al-Maliki and his defense chief Saadoun Dlimi. According to the official press release: “Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter traveled to ... Read more »
North Korea warns foreigners to quit South
In Washington, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter urged China at a forum to use its influence with the North and said Moscow wanted similar action from Beijing. "I think Russia, like others beholding this situation in North Korea, would like to see China exercise more of the ... Read more »
In Act of Solidarity, Top Pentagon Officials Will Return a Share of Salaries
In an unusual act of solidarity with the Pentagon’s civilian workforce, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the department’s deputy secretary, Ashton B. Carter, will return a share of their salaries to the federal Treasury for the same number of days that employees are docked because of ... Read more »
US flies nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over South Korea amid rising tensions with North Korea
Pentagon press secretary George Little said one B-52 flew over South Korea on March 8, and the deputy defense secretary, Ashton Carter, said during a visit to Seoul that another bomber mission is scheduled for Tuesday. B-52 bombers are capable of launching nuclear-armed cruise missiles... Read more »
U.S. budget cuts start 'slow grind'
"As the year goes on, it will be unmistakable," Ashton Carter, the deputy secretary of Defense, said of the effect. "It's not subtle. " Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Air Force would start reducing flying hours immediately, the Army would curtail training and the Navy would ... Read more »
Juggling priorities, Pentagon tries to protect war funding, troops
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has directed the military services to prioritize funding for the Afghanistan war, training for troops headed to the war zone, treatment of the wounded and preservation of family programs. He also asked them, where possible, to protect funding for ... Read more »
Pentagon braces for budget cut hardship
In a recent briefing with reporters, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter gave more details of Pentagon preparations. Besides laying off the temporary workers: -- The department has a civilian hiring freeze in place, which is a big deal for an agency that hires 1,000 to 2,000 a ... Read more »
In big push for Hagel, no leading from behind from White House
He has met with Panetta, deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter and other military leaders, including Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The nominee has had two "murder board" sessions, panels to grill him to prepare for questions from skeptical - and hostile - ... Read more »
Pentagon cutting jobs, maintenance due to budget fears: official
... 25, 2013 12:07pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has begun laying off most of its 46,000 temporary and term employees and cutting maintenance on ships and aircraft in an effort to slow spending due to fears of new defense budget cuts, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Friday... Read more »
Is a Republican the frontrunner for defense? – CNN Political Ticker
Sources say others under consideration for the defense post include Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Michele Flournoy, who was previously a top Pentagon official. Carter, who has helped oversee the Pentagon's recent belt tightening, would be viewed as well suited to lead ... Read more »
Current Top Pentagon Official Urged Bombing North Korea…When He Was on the Sidelines
In one of those strange twists of fate TV writers love, Ashton Carter, the current deputy secretary of defense, advocated bombing North Korea seven years ago when he was safely in his bunker at Harvard University. Along with Clinton-era defense secretary William Perry, Carter ... Read more »
