Tobias naegele biography
The Hole in Trump’s Defense Team: Next SECAF Is a Mystery
Dec. 23, 2024 | By Tobias Naegele
President-elect Donald Trump announced his choices to fill out the top positions on his Pentagon team Dec. 22, but the next Secretary of the Air Force remains a notable vacancy.
Trump announced his nominees for a half-dozen key roles in the office of the Secretary of Defense.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Stephen Feinberg is slated to take on the Pentagon’s No. 2 job, akin to its chief operating officer. Feinberg, 64, is a career financier and the billionaire cofounder of the investment firm Cerberus Capital Management. A donor to all three of Trump’s presidential campaigns, he chaired Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board from 2018-2020. Like Trump’s nominees for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, he is a graduate of Princeton University.
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Elbridge “Bridge” Colby has been tapped to lead the Pentagon’s policy shop. Colby authored Trump’s 2018 National Defense Strategy, which identified China as the principal threat to U.S. global power and remained largely intact under the Biden administration. A notable China hawk, Colby, 45, was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017-2019 during the first Trump administration. He is an Ivy Leaguer like Feinberg and Hegseth—Colby graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School—and is a political centrist, having spent eight years as an analyst and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a bipartisan thank tank with historic ties to the Obama administration, and founded the Marathon Institute, a think tank created to developing “strategic insights and frameworks needed to deal with the deep and difficult problems of great power competition.”
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment
Michael Duffey will be nominated for DOD’s top acquisition job. Duffey held positions in the Pentagon and at Air & Space Forces Magazine is the monthly journal of the Air & Space Forces Association and among the world’s foremost publications on defense, aerospace, and airpower. We cover Air and Space operations, programs, technology, as well as its people and history. Air & Space Forces Magazine is an authoritative source for insight and analysis about airpower, spacepower, and U.S. and allied defense strategy. Our Daily Report email is a daily must-read for air and space professionals—in uniform and out. Comprising staff-written news and a curated selection of newsworthy, relevant, and reliable content from other reputable sources, the Daily Report is the ideal way to start each day for anyone interested in keeping up to date with the Air Force, Space Force, and international air and space power. Air & Space Forces Magazine’s annual Air & Space Forces Almanac is the go-to comprehensive source for facts, figures, and other details about the Air Force and Space Force. With sections on bases, budgets, commands, people, and weapons systems, it’s a one-stop shop for USAF and USSF information published annually since 1973. Access to the Almanac is restricted to subscribers, who also become members of the Air & Space Forces Association. To subscribe to any of our products, click here. Publisher For the Liechtenstein politician, see Franz Nägele. Franz Karl Naegele (7 December 1778 – 21 January 1851) was a German obstetrician born in Düsseldorf. His son, Hermann Franz Naegele (1801–1851), was also a noted obstetrician. He earned his medical degree from the University of Bamberg, afterwards opening a medical practice in Barmen. In 1807, he became an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, where in 1810 he was appointed a full professor of obstetrics. He is remembered for "Naegele's rule", a standard method of calculating the due date for a pregnancy. His name is also lent to "Naegele obliquity", also known as an anterior asynclitism. A variety of obliquely contracted bony pelvis where there is arrested development of one of the sacral alae, has also been named after him (Naegele's pelvis). Manning the Space Force: A New Model
— Katharine Kelley, Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Human Capital, U.S. Space Force
— Brig. Gen. Nathan D. Yates, Mobilization Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Operations, Cyber, and Nuclear, the Pentagon
— CMSgt Todd Scott, Senior Advisor to the Chief Master Sergeant of the Space Force
Moderator: Jennifer Reeves, Senior Resident Fellow for Space Studies, AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Watch and ReadAI-Informed Logistics and Supply Chains
— Matt George, Founder and CEO, Merlin Labs
— Col. Louis Ruscetta, USAF (ret), Director of USAF Mission Success, Virtualitics
— Justin Woulfe, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Systecon
Moderator: CMSgt. Robert Berrier, Senior Enlisted Leader HAF AF/A4
Watch and Read21st Century Jet Propulsion Imperative
— Dr. Michael R. Gregg, Director, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
— Chris Flynn, Vice President of Military Development Programs, Pratt & Whitney
— David Tweedie, GE Edison Works Vice President and General Manager for Advanced Products
Moderator: Maj. Gen. Larry Stutzriem, USAF (Ret.), Director of Research at AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
Watch and ReadUkraine, Russia War: A Prelude to Future Conflict
— Air Marshal Allan Marshall, Air & Space Commander (ASC), Royal Air Force
— Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, USAF (Ret.), Former commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa
— Lt. Gen. Dave A. Deptula, USAF (Ret.), Dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
— Maj. Gen. Charles Corcoran, USAF (Ret.), Former Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations
Moderator: David A. Ochmanek, Senior International/Defense Researcher, RAND
Watch and ReadLive, Virtual, and Constructive: Preparing for the High-End Fight
— Mike Manazir, Vice President, Business Development & Strategy for Mobility, Surveillance & Bombers, Boeing
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Lt. Gen. Burt Field, USAF (Ret.)Franz Naegele
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