WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s pick to be the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, a former official for defense acquisition in the Obama administration.
Bill LaPlante, who was the head of Charles Stark Draper Laboratories Inc and served in the administration of President Barack Obama, was approved by voice vote to be the next undersecretary of acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler)
