Former Symantec boss takes over the Defense Innovation Unit

Defense News: Michael Brown spent two decades running companies in Silicon Valley, eventually rising to CEO of Symantec, one of the largest software companies in the world, with annual revenues of $4 billion and more than 10,000 employees.

On Sept. 24, he starts a new job as the next leader of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit. While it comes with a much smaller budget, in the range of $40 million, it’s a job Brown believes he’s stepping into at a critical time.

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