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Austin Dahmer

American official

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ136703855 ↗
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Austin Dahmer is an American official of the United States Department of Defense. As of 2025, he is performing the duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and has addressed the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is considering his confirmation as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities on 4 November 2025.

Education

Dahmer graduated the US Naval Academy with merit in 2014, with a bachelor's degree majoring in political science and economics.

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This entry incorporates text from “Austin Dahmer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.