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Aldridge Emerging As Top Choice for Pentagon Acquisition Chief
By Robert Holzer
Special to Spacenews.com
posted: 02:20 pm ET
07 February 2001
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WASHINGTON Former U WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Edward "Pete" Aldridge is emerging as a leading candidate for the coveted job of Pentagon acquisition chief, defense sources said. Aldridge, 62, is now chief executive officer of the Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, California, but has reached the companys mandatory retirement age. He also serves on the Pentagons Defense Science Board. Aldridge served as Air Force Secretary from 1986-1988, during the administration of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and prior to that ran the ultra-secret National Reconnaissance Office, which buys and operates the nations spy satellites. In a recent interview with Space News, Aldridge said a critical challenge facing the Pentagon is finding new ways to finance space systems that are used by all of the military services. Currently most of these systems are funded by the Air Force. Creating a new budget line for space programs would ease the Air Forces burden of having to choose between funding space and non-space systems, Aldridge said. Other candidates for Pentagon acquisition czar include: James Roche, a retired U.S. Navy officer and an official with Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC]; Gordon England, head of Falls Church, Virginia-based General Dynamics Corp. [GD]s information systems sector; Phil Odeen, vice president of Washington operations for Cleveland-based TRW Inc. [TRW]; and Duane Andrews, now with Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, and former head of Pentagon command, control, communications and intelligence efforts.
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