Frank Kendall UPDATED: To add comment from former SecAF Heather Wilson and HASC Chair Adam Smith. WASHINGTON: Frank Kendall has a reputation as a tough nut — having wrestled to the ground any number of messy DoD programs when he led the Obama Pentagon’s acquisition shop — including the troubled OCX operating system for GPS, and the aftermath of the Army’s Future Combat System disaster. So maybe he is just what DoD needs in an Air Force Secretary as it struggles to sort out the tangled lines of budgetary and decision-making authority for the Air and Space Force, say a number of former DoD officials.