
Space Adviser. Deputy Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan will take over the duties of the principal defense space adviser on an “interim” basis, he wrote in a Jan. 17 memo to other defense officials. The move comes in response to the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization act, which calls for taking that job away from the Air Force secretary and assigning it to someone else as part of a space management overhaul.Space Vice Commander. The Air Force has told the four…