The Senate confirmed Dr. Troy Meink to be the 27th Secretary of the Air Force May 13, nearly five months after President Donald Trump picked him to be the top civilian overseeing the Air Force and Space Force. Meink was confirmed 74 to 25.

A career civil servant with extensive high-level experience as a senior executive in various space intelligence roles, Meink was the No. 2 civilian at the National Reconnaissance Office during the last administration. NRO, a Department of Defense intelligence agency, works closely with the Space Force.

Meink is expected to begin his first full day on the job on May 14.

Meink first rose to become principal deputy director at the NRO during the first Trump administration. He oversaw billions of dollars in satellite system acquisitions in that role. Prior to that, he was deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for space during the Obama administration. Meink is an Air Force veteran, having served as a KC-135 tanker navigator from 1988-1993 before changing his focus to space.

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