Earlier this year, the Air Force signed a deal to develop, test, and eventually buy up to 140 fourth-generation Boeing F-15EX fighters. Defense Department and Air Force arguments to acquire the F-15EX have run the gamut from it being cheaper to acquire and operate than the F-35, to the need to sustain Boeing’s place within the fighter production industrial base. While there is a sliver of truth attached to many of those claims, no fact-based argument to acquire the F-15EX stands up to even a modest level of scrutiny.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy to Leave Post on Inauguration Day
Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy speaks at a COVID-19 briefing, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., April 30, 2020. (DoD/Lisa Ferdinando)
19 Jan 2021
The Army s chief of staff announced Tuesday that the service s top civilian leader will leave his post at noon Wednesday as President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office. Secretary Ryan McCarthy is the best of the best; he s been a great boss, a great leader, a great partner, Gen. James McConville said Tuesday at an Association of the United States Army event.
John Whitley, the assistant secretary of the Army for financial management and comptroller, will serve as the acting secretary of the service until the Senate confirms a candidate to take over.