Biden’s Pentagon policy chief nominee poised for confirmation with GOP senators absent 2 hours ago Colin Kahl delivers a speech during a panel discussion as part of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum on June 1, 2015, in the Qatari capital Doha. (AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― The Senate on Tuesday was poised to confirm Colin Kahl to be the undersecretary of defense for policy as two Republicans were expected to be absent for a pair of votes due to family emergencies. Vice President Kamala Harris was expected to break a possible 50-50 tie on Kahl’s nomination, but her vote may not be necessary as Republican Sens. Kevin Cramer and Richard Shelby were out of Washington, D.C. Shelby returned to Alabama on Tuesday morning for an unspecified family emergency, and Cramer announced he would be away for the week after his mother died.
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By Lauren C. Williams
Apr 21, 2021
The Pentagon has launched a new steering group dedicated to synchronizing innovation efforts, according to the Pentagon’s top research official.
Barbara McQuiston, DOD’s acting under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told senators that the new steering group would “articulate changes that need to take place internally in order to become more rapid in adaptation of technology and to be more flexible in being able to do that.”
“What we’re doing in innovation is looking across the DOD and transforming a lot of the processes in order to be better adapters of technology and to more efficiently and rapidly modernize,” McQuiston testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on April 13.