USAF has promoted 417 enlisted members to chief master sergeant, following evaluation of 2,475 senior master sergeants. The selection rate was 16.85 percent, compared to 22.83 percent last year.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.

