TSgt. Leslie D. Williams, 36, of Juneau, Alaska, has died in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Thursday. Williams, an airman assigned to the 4th Maintenance Group at Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., died on Tuesday due to a non-combat-related incident at Bagram Airfield, according to DOD.
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.

