Personnel Moves

The Senate Armed Services Committee announced this afternoon that it plans to hold a hearing on Sept. 19 to consider the following nominations:

- Deborah Lee James to be Air Force secretary;

- Jessica Garfola Wright to be under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness;

- Marcel Lettre II to be principal deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence;

- Kevin Ohlson to be a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; and

- Frank Klotz to be energy under secretary for nuclear security.

In another personnel move, the Pentagon announced today that Daniel Prieto had been appointed director of cybersecurity and technology in the office of the Defense Department's chief information officer. Prieto had been working as vice president with IBM's Global Business Services unit.