{"600425":{"#nid":"600425","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Air Force acquisition nominee a champion of commercial technology ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech honors graduate who was both a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rhodesscholar.org\/\u0022\u003ERhodes\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.truman.gov\/\u0022\u003ETruman Scholar\u003C\/a\u003E may have a chance to impact the purchase of new technologies for the Air Force. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.womeninaerospace.org\/forms\/events\/conf2017\/William-Roper.pdf\u0022\u003EWilliam Roper\u003C\/a\u003E, currently founding director of the Pentagon\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Portals\/1\/Documents\/pubs\/Perdix%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf\u0022\u003EStrategic Capabilities Office\u003C\/a\u003E, is President Trump\u0026#39;s nominee to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisitions. Roper, who has argued that the Defense Department should use more commercial software, graduated \u003Cem\u003Esumma cum laude \u003C\/em\u003Ewith a B.S. from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E in 2001. He earned his M.S. in physics from Tech in 2002, also \u003Cem\u003Esumma cum laude\u003C\/em\u003E. Roper has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\u0022\u003EUniversity of Oxford\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-01-05 14:54:45","changed_gmt":"2018-01-05 14:57:46","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"digital divide","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spacenews.com\/air-force-acquisition-nominee-a-champion-of-commercial-technology\/?sthash.dCTpozon.mjjo","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"600426":{"id":"600426","type":"image","title":"William Roper ","body":null,"created":"1515164241","gmt_created":"2018-01-05 14:57:21","changed":"1515164241","gmt_changed":"2018-01-05 14:57:21","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228891","name":"William Roper.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/William%20Roper.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/William%20Roper.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":8978,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/William%20Roper.jpg?itok=24pL18Fv"}}},"media_ids":["600426"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"176682","name":"William Roper"},{"id":"2633","name":"Air Force"},{"id":"176683","name":"assistant secretary of the Air Force"},{"id":"176684","name":"Strategic Capabilities Office"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}