The Senate on July 26 confirmed Army Lt. Gen. Frank Grass to be the next National Guard Bureau chief and Air Force Maj. Gen. Joseph Lengyel to be vice chief, announced Guard officials. For these positions, Grass will receive a fourth star and Lengyel will add a third star. Grass has been deputy commander of US Northern Command since September 2010. He will become the 27th NGB chief, replacing Gen. Craig McKinley who’s commanded the National Guard since November 2008 and is retiring after some 38 years of Active Duty and Air National Guard service. Lengyel, who’s served since June 2011 as the senior US defense official in Cairo, will be the first three-star NGB vice chief based on a provision in the Fiscal 2012 defense authorization act. (Washington, D.C., report by Jim Greenhill)
Navy CCA Program’s Shape Coming into Focus
Oct. 17, 2025
In announcing its Navy Collaborative Combat Aircraft contract, General Atomics has provided some clues as to where the service is heading with its version of an armed, autonomous fighter escort. It will likely be quite different from the Air Force version.
