June 17, 2021 Air, Space Forces leaders discuss, defend budget requests in congressional hearings Across two days of hearings before the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee, Acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John “Jay” Raymond laid out both the near term and longer
April 21, 2021 USSPACECOM commander discusses space domain awareness, operating environment of space at Senate hearing Army Gen. James Dickinson appeared before the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on April 20 and 21 in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Space Command commander testified alongside Navy Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command.
Feb. 10, 2021 All services including Department of the Air Force to furnish adverse information to officer promotion boards in designated grades, circumstances The Department of the Air Force announced it is establishing policy to comply with the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2020 and newly released DoDI 1320.14 requiring all services to furnish adverse information to promotion boards considering officers for promotion to the regular
July 24, 2019 Esper Becomes 27th Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper became the 27th defense secretary July 23 during an early evening White House swearing-in ceremony. Earlier in the day, by a 90-8 vote, the U.S. Senate confirmed Esper to serve in the office.