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State Dept. Appoints New DDTC Leader

Michael Vaccaro is the new leader of the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, DDTC announced this week. Vaccaro, whose formal title is deputy assistant secretary for defense trade, started in the new role Jan. 16. He was most…

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recently the principal deputy assistant secretary for industrial base policy at the Defense Department, and he also previously worked at the Bureau of Industry and Security, where he oversaw defense trade programs. Vaccaro is the first permanent head of DDTC since Mike Miller left the agency in 2022 to become the deputy director of DOD’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (see 2212120004).