Ellen M. Lord is an American businesswoman and government official who previously served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment in the first Trump administration. She was previously the CEO of Textron Systems, a global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technologies industrial conglomerate. In her position, she was the chief weapons purchaser for the United States, responsible for overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons and services acquisitions programs in the United States Department of Defense.
- Occupation
- businessperson, politician, civil servant
- Position held
- Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
- Citizenship
- United States
