Donovan to be acting SECAF

Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew P. Donovan is set to become acting secretary of the Air Force (SECAF) on June 1 when Secretary Heather Wilson resigns to become the president of the University of Texas at El Paso. (Source: DOD 05/15/19) Gulf Coast Note: Donovan enlisted in the AF in 1977 and received his officer commissioning through the Air Force Officer Training School in 1982. While on active duty, he gained an extensive background in AF operations and held a variety of flying and staff assignments at the wing, major command and joint and combined staff levels, and was an Air Combat Command F-15C demonstration pilot. Donovan retired from active duty as a colonel in 2008 and became a senior defense policy analyst in the defense industry. Among some of his active duty assignments, along the Gulf Coast, was as an F-15C Instructor Pilot and Flight Commander, then Wing Standardization and Evaluation Flight Examiner, 2nd Tactical Fighter Training Squadron at Tyndall AFB, Fla.; and Air Combat Command F-15 Demonstration Pilot, F-15 Eagle West Coast Demonstration Team, assigned to the 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall.