{"id":183793,"date":"2024-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183793"},"modified":"2024-05-23T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:22:33","slug":"senate-confirms-melissa-dalton-as-next-under-secretary-of-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=183793","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Melissa Dalton as next Under Secretary of the Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><strong class=\"article-detail-dateline\">WASHINGTON (AFNS)  &#8212; \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The United States Senate confirmed Melissa G. Dalton to be Under Secretary of the Air Force May 23, clearing the way for her to become the Department\u2019s second highest-ranking civilian leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/president-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Joe Biden<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span> selected Dalton for the <\/span>post Sept. 21, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span>I\u2019m excited to welcome Melissa to our \u2018One Team.\u2019 Her expertise and experience are what we need as we continue our efforts to address the security challenges we face in the defense of our country,\u201d said Secretary of the Air Force <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/2730581\/secretary-of-the-air-force-frank-kendall\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Frank Kendall<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>. \u201cHer record of public service is impressive, including deployed duties in Afghanistan. The Department, our Airmen, our <\/span>Guardians and military families will benefit from her efforts and advocacy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Under Secretary of the Air Force <\/span>assists the Secretary of the Air Force in managing the Department of the Air Force and organizing, training and equipping the Air Force and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceforce.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Space Force<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Honorable <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/About-Us\/Biographies\/Display\/Article\/3033685\/kristyn-e-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Kristyn E. Jones<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>, assistant secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, has performed the duties of the Under Secretary of the Air Force since March 2023.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Kendall continued, \u201cI also want to express my gratitude to Kristyn Jones for her dedicated service while serving as Under Secretary. Her leadership and focus <\/span>was invaluable as we advanced our modernization priorities and efforts to re-optimize the Department for an era of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/reoptimization-for-great-power-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>G<\/span><span>reat <\/span><span>P<\/span><span>ower <\/span><span>C<\/span><span>ompetition<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span>.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-split ntext breakout \">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<section class=\"ast-brandedhr\">\n<div class=\"ast-brandedhr-line\">\n<p>                <title>U.S. Air Force Logo<\/title><\/p><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AFNS) &#8212; \u00a0 The United States Senate confirmed Melissa G. Dalton to be Under Secretary of the Air Force May 23, clearing the way for her to become the Department\u2019s second highest-ranking civilian leader. President Joe Biden selected Dalton for the post Sept. 21, 2023.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m excited to welcome Melissa to our \u2018One Team.\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183796,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183793\/revisions\/183796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}