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"I
am pleased to announce my nomination of Barbara Barrett of
Arizona, and former Chairman of the Aerospace Corporation, to be
the next Secretary of the Air Force," Trump said on Twitter.
"She will be an outstanding Secretary!," he added.
Heather Wilson resigned as Air Force Secretary in March to
return to academia and become president of the University of
Texas at El Paso.
The Aerospace Corporation is a national nonprofit company that
operates a federally funded research and development center and
has approximately 4,000 employees, according to its website.
Barrett was U.S. Ambassador to Finland in 2008-09 during the
presidency of George W. Bush.
Barrett unsuccessfully ran for Arizona governor in 1994 as the
first Republican woman to seek that office. She also was deputy
administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and vice
chair of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. She is married to
Craig Barrett, retired chief executive of Intel Corp. .
(Reporting by Eric Beech, Idrees Ali and Mike Stone; editing by
David Alexander and Bill Berkrot)
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