Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh has tapped Maj. Gen. Kurt Neubauer to serve as the Air Force chief of safety and commander of the Air Force Safety Center at Kirtland AFB, N.M. Neubauer currently serves as the vice commander of 7th Air Force, Pacific Air Forces and chief of staff of the Air Component Command at Osan AB, South Korea. He will replace Maj. Gen. Margaret Woodward who has held the post since September 2012. Woodward will become the new head of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault and Prevention office.
Adm. Christopher Grady, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs and head of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, is pushing a “portfolio” approach to requirements and wants his position to have “more teeth” so he can enforce it.