[1] Hood previously served as assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs (2017–2020).

In 1999, he joined the House Committee on Science as a professional staff member, where he worked on a number of issues relating to energy and environmental policy.

Hood also served as the senior policy advisor to then-Governor Tommy Thompson in the state's DC office.

Past roles with the federal government include serving eight years in President George W. Bush's Administration, including at the White House, as a special assistant to the president in the Office of Legislative Affairs and at the United States Department of Defense (2006–2008) as principal deputy assistant secretary for legislative affairs and as deputy under secretary of defense for budget and appropriations affairs.

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