The full Senate will consider the nomination of Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force on Monday, May 8. The Senate will hold “four hours of debate equally divided on both sides” and then vote on the nomination, according to a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). An unspecified procedural hold was placed on Wilson’s nomination after the Armed Services Committee approved it 22-5, delaying its full consideration by the Senate. But, that hold has since been lifted. If confirmed, she would be the first military service secretary on the job for the Trump Administration.
The nation needs a better-coordinated policy for dealing with unmanned aerial systems that threaten domestic bases, Air Force vice chief of staff Gen. James C. Slife told a panel of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He and Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief William LaPlante co-chair a panel looking at counter-UAS…