The full Senate will consider the nomination of Heather Wilson to be Secretary of the Air Force on Monday, May 8. The Senate will hold “four hours of debate equally divided on both sides” and then vote on the nomination, according to a spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). An unspecified procedural hold was placed on Wilson’s nomination after the Armed Services Committee approved it 22-5, delaying its full consideration by the Senate. But, that hold has since been lifted. If confirmed, she would be the first military service secretary on the job for the Trump Administration.
Lockheed Martin plans to enter the Advanced Tactical Trainer fray to supply the Air Force with a new jet to bridge between undergraduate flight instruction and fighter training units, but declined to say whether it will offer a T-50A derivative, a different non-developmental airplane, or a clean-sheet design. It's comments…