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Robert G. Salesses is Deputy Director of Washington Headquarters Services in the U.S. Department of Defense, who served as Acting Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration from January 20, 2025 to January 25, 2025. [1] He was formerly a U.S. Marine Corps officer and has served in multiple positions in the Department of Defense.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert Salesses will serve as acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump's choice for the position, Pete Hegseth, is confirmed by the Senate, two U.S. officials ...
Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth [44] January 25, 2025 (Confirmed January 24, 2025, 51–50) [RC 2] Robert G. Salesses [31] January 20, 2025 January 25, 2025 Deputy Secretary of Defense: Stephen Feinberg [45] Awaiting Senate Confirmation General Counsel of Defense: Earl Matthews: Awaiting Senate Confirmation Chief of Staff to the Secretary of ...
The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump’s nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense, two officials said, speaking on the ...
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Left to serve as Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness). Lisa Disbrow: February 24, 2016 June 30, 2017 Secretary of the Army: Robert M. Speer: January 20, 2017 August 2, 2017 Ryan McCarthy: August 3, 2017 November 20, 2017 June 23, 2019 July 15, 2019 McCarthy was Acting Army Secretary while Esper was Acting Defense Secretary.
The shortest-serving secretary of defense is Elliot Richardson, who served 114 days and then was appointed U.S. attorney general amid the resignations of the Watergate Scandal. (This is not counting deputy secretaries of defense William P. Clements and William Howard Taft IV, who each served a few weeks as temporary/acting secretary of defense).