Trump taps Army, NASA chiefs

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

Army vet: 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 bid is in trouble due to sexual assault allegations.

Space explorer: Trump also picked Jared Isaacman, a billionaire and space explorer, to be the head of NASA.

Isaacman, who made his fortune founding a payment processing company, has devoted his life to space exploration, including by becoming the first private citizen to complete a spacewalk in September.

The choice of Isaacman’s may signal the influence of Trump backer and SpaceX founder Elon Musk — Isaacman has praised Musk’s government cost-cutting advisory group, and completed his spacewalk in partnership with SpaceX.