If federal, state, and local officials want the Pentagon’s help for the upcoming hurricane season, they need to be snappy about major storm predictions, so DOD officials told lawmakers last week. According to Paul McHale, assistant homeland defense secretary, a week would be nice. However, he urged diligence in making predictions to avoid a rash of false alarms. McHale told reporters a day earlier that the Defense Department is “better prepared than at any point in our nation’s history to move [disaster response] assistance as rapidly as is humanly possible.”
Air Force Shakes Up Acquisition Leadership
Dec. 18, 2025
The top of the Air Force's acquisition enterprise is going through its biggest change in decades, as the Senate confirmed a new four-star officer at the Pentagon and received the nomination for a three-star to lead Air Force Materiel Command.
