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Biden Taps Frank Kendall For Air Force Secretary, Heidi Shyu For Pentagon’s Top R&E Official

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

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Biden Taps Frank Kendall For Air Force Secretary, Heidi Shyu For Pentagon’s Top R&E Official

Frank Kendall, the president's nominee to be the next Air Force Secretary. Photo: DVIDS.

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will nominate Frank Kendall, a former top acquisition official at the Pentagon, as the next secretary of the Air Force and Heidi Shyu, the Army’s former lead acquisition executive, to be the next under secretary of defense for Research and Engineering. Kendall, who is an Army veteran, last served in the Pentagon as the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics from 2012 to 2017, where he oversaw decisions related to the F-35…

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