State Dept. Names Acting Defense Trade Controls Chief, Says Top Compliance Position Now Vacant
Mike Miller, director for regional security and arms transfers in the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, was named Dec. 26 to take over as State’s acting deputy assistant secretary for defense trade controls, after Brian Nilsson retired from the…
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position effective Dec. 23, State said. Nilsson announced his retirement in mid-December. Miller is “well known” in the defense trade sector, State said. State’s director of defense trade controls compliance position is vacant, after acting director Arthur Shulman resigned from the position effective Dec. 8, a State spokesman said. Until a new director is identified, three team chiefs are filling in for the position: Acting Compliance and Civil Enforcement Chief Jae Shin, Law Enforcement Chief Julia Tulino, and Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and Mergers/Acquisitions Chief Melanie Flaharty.