Maj. Gen. Christopher Ballard, commanding general of the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command, has been assigned to the National Security Agency as deputy director for NSA’s signals intelligence directorate. Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, announced Ballard’s new assignment in a Defense Department news release published Wednesday. Ballard will …
Read More »Trump to Nominate Kearney & Co. Partner David Norquist as DoD Comptroller
President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate David Norquist, a partner at Alexandria, Virginia-based certified public accounting firm Kearney and Co., as defense undersecretary, comptroller. Trump revealed his plans to name Norquist and five other individuals to several positions at the Defense Department in a news release published Thursday. …
Read More »Financial Mgmt Pro David Norquist Confirmed as Pentagon’s Comptroller
The Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to confirm David Norquist, a former partner at Alexandria, Virginia-based financial services contractor Kearney & Company, as comptroller of the Defense Department, Inside Defense reported Thursday. President Donald Trump nominated Norquist to the DoD comptroller post in March. Norquist said during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier …
Read More »Army Eyes Universal Interface for Small Drones; Courtney Cote, Paul Cravey Comment
The U.S. Army has started to develop a universal control interface that will work to allow uniformed personnel to operate and control various types of unmanned aerial systems, the Army reported Thursday. The service branch expects the Tactical Open Government Architecture interface to enable small UAS crews to run other types of drones …
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