Defense Secretary Robert Gates terminates the newly restarted KC-X tanker competition, explaining he didn’t believe the process could yield a new winner by January and preferred to leave it for the new Administration.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3