President Donald Trump plans to nominate Barbara Barrett, former head of the Aerospace Corporation, a government-funded research center, to be the next secretary of the Air Force.
"She will be an outstanding Secretary!" Trump tweeted this afternoon.
Barrett, 68, a former bank chair and business executive from Arizona, also served as ambassador to Finland under former President George W.
Bush. She has also done stints at the government-funded RAND Corporation and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.If confirmed by the Senate, Barrett would replace Heather Wilson, who is stepping down to serve as president of the University of Texas at El Paso.
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