Retired Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, the first head of the Pentagon’s Office of Transformation died Nov. 12 in Bethesda, Md., from cancer. A Naval aviator, Cebrowski was president of the Naval War College from 1998 to 2001, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld selected him to lead the department’s transformation efforts.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.