The secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head of the Department of the Navy,a military department within the United States Department of Defense.
Harry Binkley Harris Jr. is a retired Japanese-born American diplomat and retired U.S. Navy officer. He was the first American of Japanese descent to lead US Pacific Command and was the highest-ranking American of Japanese descent in U.S. Navy history during his time as commander.
Kenneth R. Weinstein is the Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute,a conservative Washington-based think tank. From 2005,he served as Hudson's CEO,and from April 2011 until January 2021 was Hudson's President and CEO. Weinstein is an expert on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs and has commented on national and international affairs on television and in numerous publications,including The Wall Street Journal,The Weekly Standard,Yomiuri Shimbun and Le Monde. Weinstein is the founding chair and CEO of the Indo-Pacific Forum,which he co-founded with Shinzo Abe in 2022.
James Edwin McPherson is an American government official and retired United States Navy rear admiral. He served as the General Counsel of the Army from January 2,2018,to March 24,2020. He served as the United States Under Secretary of the Army from March 25,2020,to January 20,2021,and in acting capacity from July 23,2019,to March 24,2020. He served as Acting United States Secretary of the Navy from April 7,2020,to May 29,2020,following the resignation of Thomas Modly.
Kenneth Ian Juster is a veteran American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently senior counselor at the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,senior adviser at the institutional investor CDPQ,strategic adviser at the software company Salesforce,and distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Peter Michael McKinley is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer,McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru (2007–2010),Colombia (2010–2013),Afghanistan (2015–2016),and Brazil (2017–2018),and then as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State (2018–2019).
John F. Kirby is a retired United States Navy rear admiral serving as White House National Security Communications Advisor since 2022. He previously served in the Biden administration as Pentagon Press Secretary and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs from 2021 to 2022. He worked as a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN from 2017 to 2021. He served in the Obama administration as Pentagon Press Secretary from 2013 to 2015 and as the spokesperson for the United States Department of State and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 2015 to 2017.
Cambridge Analytica Ltd. (CA),previously known as SCL USA,was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was started in 2013,as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described "global election management agency" SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes,Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes,with Nix as CEO. The well-connected founders had contact with,among others,the British Conservative Party,royal family,and military. The firm maintained offices in London,New York City,and Washington,D.C. The company closed operations in 2018 in the course of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal,although firms related to both Cambridge Analytica and its parent firm SCL still exist.
Donald Trump assumed office as the 45th president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his first term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
The Constellation-class multi-mission guided-missile frigates of the United States Navy are based on the European multipurpose frigates (FREMM),already in service with the French and Italian navies. Constellation follows the modular but problematic littoral combat ships of the Freedom and Independence classes. The U.S. Navy announced the FFG(X) frigate project in the United States Department of Defense's Request For Information (RFI) in July 2017.
Daniel Joseph Kritenbrink is an American diplomat who has served as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs since September 2021. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Vietnam from 2017 to 2021.
Thomas B. Modly is an American businessman and former government official who served as acting United States Secretary of the Navy from November 24,2019,to April 7,2020. He resigned as acting Secretary in the wake of his firing and berating Brett Crozier,the captain of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt,for allegedly going outside his chain of command in calling for help to deal with a COVID-19 outbreak onboard. Later,Modly traveled to the ship at port in Guam,where he addressed the crew in a manner that was perceived as disrespectful. He was subsequently widely criticized,and submitted a letter of resignation.
Ronny Lynn Jackson is an American physician,politician,and former United States Navy officer. He is the U.S. representative for Texas's 13th congressional district. The district is based in Amarillo and includes the Panhandle and much of northeast Texas,as far as Denton.
In the 2010s,personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica,predominantly to be used for political advertising.
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