3 Executives Considered to Head Military
Three corporate executives are under consideration to lead the Air Force, Army and Navy, administration officials said Saturday.
The three have been interviewed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, and the White House was expected to announce this week that it will send their names to the Senate for confirmation, the Washington Times reported, quoting unidentified sources.
Gordon R. England, 63, who retired recently from General Dynamics Corp., would be nominated as Navy secretary; James G. Roche, 61, a vice president at Northrop Grumman Corp., is the pick to head the Air Force; and the choice to head the Army is Thomas E. White, 57, a retired Army general and an executive with Enron Corp. White also once worked as an assistant to Colin L. Powell, Bush’s secretary of State.
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