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[The Straight Story]

Druyun scandal may lead to more vacancies at the Pentagon

By George Cahlink
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The Defense Department's largest procurement scandal in decades likely will lead to more high-level departures at the Pentagon, according to a senior Air Force official.

"There are many people now lining up to leave," Marvin Sambur, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told the Defense Writers Group in Washington on Wednesday.

Sambur and Air Force Secretary James Roche already are slated to leave their posts later this month--the highest-level casualties to date following revelations last year that former Air Force executive Darleen Druyun illegally favored Boeing in contract negotiations, in exchange for jobs for herself and members of her family.

Sambur said that Michael Wynne, acting undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, and Gen. Gregory Martin, Air Force Materiel Command chief, were likely to leave as well. Neither has announced plans, although Wynne's nomination to become the permanent undersecretary died in the last Congress and is not being resubmitted.

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