Dr. Ashton Carter, is a nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Department of Defense. Carter, a physicist and current chair of the International & Global ...

The Senate overwhelming confirmed Ashton Carter as the new U.S. defense secretary. WSJ’s Jerry Seib discusses the top challenges Mr. Carter will face. Photo: AP.

In one of his final acts as Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter is implementing plans to integrate the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) permanently into the Pentagon bureaucracy. Earlier this ...

Ashton B. Carter, former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, is Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of ...