Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan...
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan interacts with troops on Yokota Air Base as part of his visit to Japan.
Patrick M. Shanahan became the Acting Secretary of Defense on January 1, 2019. Prior to this assignment, he served as the 33rd Deputy Secretary of Defense, appointed on July 19, 2017. The Washington state native holds two advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent more than 30 years at Boeing, where he led programs for commercial planes, missile defense systems and rotorcraft systems.
