The National Defense Industrial Association has named former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist as its new president and CEO, the trade group announced Thursday.
Despite repeated warnings from lawmakers and uniformed Pentagon leaders that a full-year continuing resolution will hurt national security, some in the defense industry are still worried that budgetary route is a possibility.
Defense firms are sounding the alarm that they expect to lose employees who refuse to comply with a federal COVID vaccination requirement for contractors, due to take effect in December.
Eight months into President Joe Biden’s first year as commander-in-chief, he’s making good on a campaign pledge to form an administration that would “look like America,” selecting for the Defense Department top officials meant to reflect the country’s diversity.
On Congress’ agenda when members return from the July 4 recess: late-arriving defense spending and policy bills as well as President Joe Biden’s pick for Navy secretary, among other Pentagon nominees.
President Joe Biden is set to nominate the chief executive of the U.S.-Russia Foundation and a former National Security Council official on Russia to be the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs on Tuesday.
We need to keep our nation’s seat of government safe, but creating a quick-reaction force is not the right solution, says the author of this commentary.