Robert Salesses will serve as the acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump's nominee, Pete Hegseth, gets confirmed by the Senate.

Salesses has also served in roles including assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense and global security and deputy assistant secretary of Defense for defense continuity and mission ...

Four years ago, the deputy secretary of defense under Trump ... to stay on as his own Pentagon leader in 2009. In 2017, Jim Mattis, Trump's pick to be secretary during his first term, was ...

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Shawn G ... shared her experience with military leadership and inclusion work, encouraging diverse audiences to envision themselves as ...

Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense ... branches and Pentagon leadership. Hegseth could see his ...

Austin III (Secretary Austin), to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks (Deputy ... duties by the Deputy Secretary or other senior DoD leadership in the chain of succession as may be ...

The Conversation U.S. asked Evelyn Farkas, a longtime Defense Department leader who is now executive ... Farkas was a deputy assistant secretary of defense with a focus on Russia, Ukraine and ...

Mr. Storch said the “ability for the DoD and the government to operate seamlessly and the continuity of leadership under any and all ... of his authorities were transferred” to the deputy secretary of ...

President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary ... leadership posts perform certain command and control functions.NBC first reported Salesses' appointment. Robert Salesses, deputy ...