Deputy secretary Lynn is the 30th deputy secretary of defense. Previously, Lynn served as senior vice president of Government Operations and Strategy at Raytheon Company; executive vice president of DFI International, a Washington-based management consulting firm; the under secretary of defense; director of program analysis and evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; liaison to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the staff of Senator Edward Kennedy; a senior fellow at the National Defense University and was on the professional staff of the Institute for Defense Analyses; and as executive director of the Defense Organization Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Lynn earned a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and a law degree from Cornell Law School. His publications include a book, Toward a More Effective Defense, as well as articles in various newspapers and professional journals.
