Overview

• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Lt. Gen. Michael J. Borgschulte’s nomination to become the 66th superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, a first for a Marine officer, pending Senate confirmation.
• Vice Adm. Yvette Davids will be renominated for a third star and appointed deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans, strategy and warfighting development, contingent on Senate confirmation plus a congressional waiver.
• Naval Academy superintendents typically serve three to four years before retiring; however, Davids is leaving after just 18 months under a rare mid-term waiver.
• During Davids’ tenure the academy ended affirmative action in admissions, banned so-called “divisive concepts” and removed hundreds of books on race and gender from its library before most were restored.
• The leadership shake-up reflects President Trump and Hegseth’s push to reshape military command and roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across service institutions.