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Government / Military

Robert O. Work

2014-05-01 – 2017-07-01Deputy Secretary of Defensethe day is not established here

Deputy Secretary of Defense (2014-2017) under Obama and Trump; helped launch the Pentagon's "Third Offset Strategy" emphasizing advanced and AI-enabled weapons. Joined Raytheon's board of directors and defense-data analytics firm Govini shortly after leaving the Pentagon, one of the most frequently cited examples of the defense "revolving door."

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread. It is on this map through the national-security revolving door. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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William J. Lynn III, 12 February 2009 – 5 October 2011. Robert O. Work, 5 May 2014 – 19 July 2017. Patrick Shanahan, 19 July 2017…

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Robert O. Work → Raytheon
joined its board shortly after leaving the Pentagon
left the Pentagon 19 July 2017; elected to its board 14 August 2017

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NOT A DEATH. Verified 2 September 2026 against Wikipedia, "Robert O. Work", fetched that day, which gives his tenure as Deputy Secretary of Defense as "May 1, 2014 - July 14, 2017". THE SOURCE AND THIS FILE DISAGREE BY THIRTEEN DAYS: the end recorded here is 2017-07-01. The month is corroborated and the day is not, so end_precision is "month" and the page will say the day is not established rather than print one nobody can source. The date itself is left alone - changing it is an editorial decision. The article records him on the Special Competitive Studies Project board as of October 2023 and carries no death notice: HE IS LIVING. RECORDED GRADE: fetched secondary source, not a primary document read by eye. It is recorded so a reader can check it, and it is the same grade as the fourteen death dates already on this map.