WASHINGTON — A week-and-a-half after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a sweeping centralization of most service-run drone programs under one manager, no one’s yet been named to fill that powerful role.
There aren’t even widespread rumors about who is under consideration for the Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager job, colloquially being called the “drone czar.” But in a town where personalities often trump policy, experts told Breaking Defense that who runs the new office — and how well they manage the inevitable intramural frictions — matters more than what’s written in the formal memorandum [PDF] establishing the office.
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