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: ''This article is about the American deputy cabinet secretary. For the Canadian writer, see Leo McKay, Jr..'' Leo S. Mackay, Jr. (born 1961) is a former deputy secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He is Corporate Vice President, and an elected officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Currently, he is Vice President - Ethics and Sustainability leading the Office of Ethics and Business Conduct as well as serving as Chief Sustainability Officer. He reports to the CEO and the Ethics and Sustainability Committee of the board of directors. He is an independent director of Cognizant Technology Solutions. From 2007 to 2011, he was Lockheed Martin's Vice President, Corporate Business Development. From 2005 to 2007, Mackay was President of ICGS, LLC – a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Concordia Theological Seminary. Mackay chaired the Board of Visitors at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland (2008-14). He was a board member, and chair of the Audit Committee, of the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC (2007-15). He was Chair of the Lutheran Housing Support Corporation (2006-2011); Chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Minority Health (2004–2005); and a board member of Cook’s Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas (1998–2001). He was U.S. Black Engineer magazine's 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Awardee for Career Achievement, and the 2014 Lincoln-Douglass Award winner from the Republican National Committee. ==Government service== Mackay was Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs from May 2001 to October 2003. As the department's second in command and designated chief operating officer, he had operational authority over the department's three major agencies: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the nation's largest integrated healthcare system; the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA); and the National Cemetery Administration. He concentrated on departmental management initiating a Strategic Management Council, reformulating the departmental budget process, and changing the internal merit system for GS/SES personnel. He was concentrated on the CARES project, a capital asset realignment of VHA; enhanced use leasing; lowering the backlog of pending veterans' claims; achievement and maintenance of a clean audit; the National Shrine Commitment, an effort to raise, and make standard, the condition of the national cemeteries; and VetFran, a program for transitioning veterans to aid them in starting franchise businesses. He was also, with David Chu, a founding co-chair of the VA-DoD Joint Executive Council to increase interdepartmental collaboration and sharing. Upon his departure, then-Secretary Anthony Principi stated, "Dr. Mackay brought to VA the discipline of the business world and the compassion of a man who cares deeply for America's veterans. His legacy is a more-focused VA better able to meet the needs of veterans." From 1993-95, Mackay served as military assistant to then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, Ashton Carter. During this time, the office was re-organized to focus on cooperative de-nuclearization, execution of the Nunn-Lugar threat reduction program, nuclear weapons policy, and counter-proliferation. The office also was the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) lead for the Nuclear Posture Review of 1994-95. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leo Mackay, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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