Trump transition committee names 'landing team' led by former defense execs

By Tony Bertuca / November 18, 2016 at 10:46 AM
The national security “landing team” leading the Defense Department transition for President-elect Donald Trump includes several current and former defense industry executives. Trump's transition team announced Friday that his DOD group is composed of Mira Ricardel, a former Boeing executive and Pentagon official; Keith Kellogg, a former Army general and defense executive whose most recent position was at Cubic Corporation; Thomas Carter, an executive at Elbit Systems of America; Michael Duffey, who is the director of Wisconsin Republican Party; former...

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