Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz has assigned Maj. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, KC-46 program executive officer since June 2009, to be deputy director of the F-35 strike fighter program office in Arlington, Va., announced the Pentagon. Assigned to take Bogdan’s place is Maj. Gen. John Thompson, according to the Pentagon’s May 11 release. Thompson has been the F-35 program office’s deputy director since September 2011. The KC-46 program office is located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Since President Donald Trump first unveiled his “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative in late January, much of the focus for it has been focused on space—how the Pentagon may deploy dozens, if not hundreds, of sensors and interceptors into orbit to protect the continental U.S. from missile barrages. But the Air…