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Gov. Kevin Stitt announced the appointment of Acorn Growth Companies CEO and Managing Partner Rick Nagel to the OU Board of Regents on Tuesday morning.  According to a press release from the Governor’s office, if approved by the Oklahoma Senate, Nagel will serve a seven-year term expiring March 2028, replacing chair Gary Pierson.  Pierson was originally appointed in April 2019 to finish former regent Bill Burgess' term after he died in February 2019. In an October 2019 lunch meeting including the seven regents, Anil Gollahalli, OU legal counsel; Drew Neville, contracted attorney...

2 hrs ago Rick Nagel, an Oklahoma businessman and aersospace leader, was appointed to the University of Oklahoma's Board of Regents April 6, 2021. An Oklahoma businessman, aerospace leader and supporter of the governor is the newest appointee to the University of Oklahoma’s Board of Regents, the governor’s office announced Tuesday.  Rick Nagel, CEO and managing partner with Acorn Growth Companies, is Gov. Kevin Stitt’s fifth and latest appointee to OU’s seven-member board, Stitt’s office said Tuesday. Nagel is an alumnus of OU’s College of Engineering and a No...

Oklahoman Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed a new member to the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents on Tuesday to replace the board's chairman. Rick Nagel, 49, is the governor's choice to take over the seat held by Chairman Gary Pierson on the seven-member board, which is the governing body for all OU campuses, Cameron University and Rogers State University. His appointment is pending state Senate confirmation. Stitt appointed Pierson in 2019 to fill the unexpired term of Regent Bill Burgess, who died in February of that year. With Pierson's term ending in 2021, the governor chose Nagel to ...

USAF US fighters and autonomous drones would fight side by side under a new combat concept. Air Force advances in the US will push Beijing to match American ingenuity and design, analysts say. The US Air Force's desire to radically reshape and accelerate the way it develops future fighter planes could propel China to ramp up its plans for next-generation aircraft, Chinese experts said. A military insider familiar with China's next-generation aircraft project said Chinese aircraft designers were keeping a close eye on anything disclosed by their American counterpa...

Fact: The Chinese have plans to at least double their arsenal by the end of the decade China's military seems like it is growing in every direction possible.  For example, Chinese shipbuilders are adding new aircraft carriers, amphibs and destroyers at an alarming pace. Chinese armored vehicle engineers are fast-adding new infantry carriers and mobile artillery platforms. Chinese weapons developers are adding large numbers of new drones and attack robots. But the largest and potentially most alarming element of all of this, according to many senior U.S. leaders, is the staggering pace at w...