Whit Cobb

Whit Cobb is the Senior Vice President, Legal and Corporate Secretary of Amentum, and was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of PAE. Before joining PAE, Whit served as the Deputy General Counsel of BAE Systems, Inc. for eight years, and as Deputy General Counsel (Legal Counsel) of the Department of Defense for three years. Before his service with the Department of Defense, Whit was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, where he focused on government contracts and telecommunications issues. Before this role, White was the Judicial Fellow at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. From 1991 to 1995, he served on active duty in the United States Army as an attorney in the Army General Counsel's Office, where he worked on intelligence and classified program issues. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, which he attended on an ROTC scholarship. Mr. Cobb, a 1990 graduate of Yale Law School, was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal.