Search for new MDA director is on after Hill requests retirement

By Jason Sherman / April 18, 2023 at 2:17 PM
The Pentagon is seeking a new Missile Defense Agency director after Vice Adm. Jon Hill recently requested permission to retire this summer -- marking the second consecutive MDA director to vacate the post prior to completing a six-year term that Congress created to help foster management stability over the agency's complex projects portfolio. Next month, Hill will mark four years as MDA director, a post he stepped into after being deputy director in late 2016, giving him more than six...

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