Secretary of the Navy
Noun
Meaning
head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
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Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James Geurts said Monday that the deal "is the result of a lot of hard work between the shipbuilder teams and our teams to negotiate the first two ships' cost."
The Navy’s top official, Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite, recently the name of the Navy’s newest frigate and the first of the new Constellation-class.
One of the university’s larger contributors to political campaigns, former Secretary of the Navy and NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, has served under several Republican presidents.