Trump taps Army, NASA chiefs

By Paul McLeary, Sam Skove | 12/04/2024 01:14 PM EST

The president-elect picked Jared Isaacman, a billionaire and space explorer, to lead NASA.

Jared Isaacman speaks at a news conference after arriving at the Kennedy Space Center.

Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, was the first private citizen to complete a spacewalk. John Raoux/AP

President-elect Donald Trump selected leaders for the Army and NASA on Wednesday.

Daniel Driscoll, an investor and close friend of Vice President-elect JD Vance from Yale Law School, has been tapped to become the next secretary of the Army, Trump announced on social media.

Driscoll, an Army veteran with a combat deployment to Iraq under his belt, became close to Vance at Yale before moving back to North Carolina, where he has worked as an investor and ran for Congress in an unsuccessful bid in 2020 in which he focused on national security issues.

Driscoll joins Pentagon nominees John Phelan, tapped to run the Navy, and Pete Hegseth, whose Defense secretary bid is in trouble due to sexual assault allegations.

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