The Senate has confirmed Air National Guard Col. Deborah Rose for her first star and to become director of Joint Forces Headquarters Kansas, Kansas National Guard. Rose currently is the vice commander of the 190th Air Refueling Wing in Topeka. She is the first female general officer for the Kansas National Guard, according to a statement from the Kansas Adjutant General.
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.
