Daniel Driscoll
Secretary of the Army
Daniel Patrick Driscoll is a native of North Carolina. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He served in the U.S. Army as an armor officer and earned a Ranger tab through the U.S. Army Ranger School.
After his military service, Driscoll interned for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee during law school. He worked in investment banking in North Carolina and became Chief Operating Officer of a venture capital fund.
President Donald Trump nominated Driscoll to serve as the Secretary of the Army in December 2024. He was confirmed by the Senate and assumed the role in February 2025.
Driscoll is married to Cassie, and they have two children.
In the News…
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll spoke about the elimination of red tape to facilitate transactions between his service branch and defense technology companies. The changes come as innovation occurs at ever increasing speed and nations such as China mass-produce low-cost goods.
The Army secretary said, “We are redesigning our standards and our requirements, knowing that scale matters in a way it hasn’t before.” The Army continues to maintain standards to comply with the National Defense Authorization Act.
Secretary Driscoll said the Army “is speeding up our purchasing cycle. You don’t have to sell us 10,000 to 100,000 of a thing. We can now buy 100 to 1,000 of a thing, almost like Special Forces have been able to do.”
He added, “That was very siloed for a long time, and now a lot of the Army can essentially use their equivalent of a corporate credit card to go buy, test, innovate. If it’s a good solution, the entire Army or much of it will start to feel for purchasing.”
