Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne presented an Exceptional Civilian Service Award to civilian Air Force photographer Ron Hall, during a ceremony at the Pentagon on April 17. Hall has photographed Air Force leaders and events for 50 years, covering 18 service Secretaries and 16 Chiefs of Staff. Wynne highlighted Hall’s body of work that took him from foreign visits to Corona conferences. Efforts are being made for his work to be displayed at the National Museum of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
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.

