Defense News:
WASHINGTON — The next Missile Defense Agency director will be now-Vice Admiral Jon Hill, who currently serves as the agency’s deputy director, the MDA has confirmed. Hill will replace Air Force Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, who will retire July 1, according to MDA spokesman Mark Wright.
The newly minted vice admiral’s nomination for the position was sent to Capitol Hill the last week of March.
Before Hill became deputy director in 2016, he served as the U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems (PEO IWS) beginning in 2014 where he garnered experience in integrated air-and-missile defense.
Hill has maintained the United States is ready to defend against the biggest threats to the homeland such as the North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile threat. At the Defense News inaugural conference in 2017 he stressed the U.S. military was prepared to counter any such threat, but he warned that additional funding is needed to fortify defenses for more formidable threats to come, adding the real concern is that threats will become more complex.
