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Jimmy Stewart, the acting undersecretary for personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense, has left his post on Friday, Military Times reported Saturday. Matthew Donovan, undersecretary at the U.S. Air Force, will succeed Stewart in the acting administrator role.

Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 winner Mark Esper said he expects the Department of Defense’s new budget review process to continue until early next year, Federal News Network reported Monday.

The heads of seven federal agencies have released a joint statement expressing their commitment to ensuring the security of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.

The Department of Defense is working on security guidance to prepare for cloud deployment once the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract is awarded, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award winner Mark Esper said the U.S. government is “preparing to evacuate” approximately 1K U.S. service personnel from northern Syria amid Turkey’s impending offensive against the Syrian Democratic Forces, CBS News reported Sunday. SDF served as the U.S. allies as part of the campaign against the Islamic State militant organization.

Gen. Mark Milley has assumed the role of chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia.

Gen. Mike Holmes, commander of Air Combat Command, announced a new information warfare numbered air force that will combine the 24th and 25th air forces, the service branch reported Wednesday.

Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 Award winner Mark Esper said the U.S. military should “adapt” to counter cyber attacks and threats in space amid the resurgence of “great power competition,” the Air Force reported Wednesday. He cited the role of the National Defense Strategy in ensuring national security and fighting threats from near-peer competitors.

Defense Secretary and a 2019 Wash100 winner Mark Esper said he has no “hard timeline” to complete his assessment of the Pentagon’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Jonathan Hoffman, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, said the Department of Defense has identified 127 domestic and overseas military construction projects that could be postponed to free up $3.6B in funds to support barrier projects at the southern U.S. border, DoD reported Wednesday.