State Dept. Appoints New Acting Head of DDTC

The State Department appointed Timothy Betts acting deputy assistant secretary for the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, according to DDTC’s personnel page, which was updated this month. Betts, who was previously the acting coordinator for counterterrorism and acting special envoy for the global coalition to defeat the Islamic State group, started in the new role in May, according to his LinkedIn page. Betts is the latest official to take over after the departure of Mike Miller in December, who left to become the deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (see 2212120004). Miller had been temporarily replaced by Catherine Hamilton, DDTC’s licensing director. An agency spokesperson at the time said the “position will rotate among DDTC directorates office directors until a new permanent deputy assistant secretary is formally selected and announced."