VA Secretary Jim Nicholson just announced he is resigning from his post as head of Veterans Affairs because he wants to return to the private sector. His 70th birthday is in February, and he wants to work in business again before he gets any older. Nicholson was sworn in as VA Secretary on Feb. 1, 2005. He will leave the position by Oct. 1. Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, commented that he had worked with Nicholson “during some challenging times,” including the potentially massive data breach in 2006, and “found him willing to work with the committee and the Congress on behalf of our nation’s veterans.”
The future U.S. bomber force could provide a way for the Pentagon to simultaneously deter conflict with peer adversaries in two geographically disparate theaters, said Mark Gunzinger, the director of future concepts and capability assessments at AFA's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, during a March 21 event. But doing so…