{"id":15802,"date":"2022-02-16T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/16\/senate-confirms-wallander-to-pentagon-international-affairs-role\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:35:13","slug":"senate-confirms-wallander-to-pentagon-international-affairs-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/2022\/02\/16\/senate-confirms-wallander-to-pentagon-international-affairs-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Wallander to Pentagon international affairs role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Russia expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2021\/06\/23\/biden-picks-russia-pro-for-key-pentagon-post\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celeste Wallander<\/a> to be the Pentagon\u2019s assistant defense secretary for international security affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate voted 83 to 13 to confirm Wallander, who served as chief executive of the U.S.-Russia Foundation and as a Russia expert on the National Security Council during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wallander, in the far-reaching Pentagon policy role, will advise Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on policies relating to the Middle East, Europe (including NATO), Russia, Eurasia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere. She\u2019ll also oversee U.S. military security cooperation and foreign military sales.<\/p>\n\n\n<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link smg-interstitial-link--fallback wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=site%3Adefensenews.com+reed+schumer&#038;oq=site%3Adefensenews.com+reed+schumer&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.5450j0j1&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__fallback-link\">Reed aims for fresh push to confirm Biden\u2019s Pentagon nominees<\/a><\/aside>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At her confirmation hearing last month, Wallander made headlines when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/01\/13\/amid-border-crisis-pentagon-nominee-criticizes-obama-response-to-russias-ukraine-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\">criticized<\/a> the Obama administration\u2019s response to Russia\u2019s 2014 annexation of Crimea as \u201ctoo slow and too incremental.\u201d She had been on the NSC at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate Armed Services Committee advanced Wallander\u2019s nomination on Feb. 1. From there, it was among nominations delayed by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2022\/02\/10\/gop-senator-blocks-russia-pro-from-joining-pentagon-drawing-fiery-rebuke\/\" target=\"_blank\">objection<\/a> necessitated a motion to end debate, an added procedural step on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate also confirmed David Honey, nominated to serve as deputy undersecretary for research and engineering. Honey, a retired Air Force officer and former director of science and technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has been special assistant to the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 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