Trump Nominates Hung Cao for Permanent Navy Secretary

Pensacola, FL (NewsRadio 92.3) -- President Trump has nominated Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao (COW) to become the permanent Secretary of the Navy, following months of Pentagon turmoil over shipbuilding priorities that led to former Secretary John Phelan's departure. Trump is urging quick Senate confirmation. Locally, shipbuilding remains a big focus for the Navy right here in Pensacola, where Australian company Birdon is building a two-hundred-seventy-five-million-dollar facility at the Port of Pensacola to produce Navy ship and submarine modules. The project is expected to bring around two-thousand jobs to the area. Cao has recently drawn attention for meeting with families of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which just completed a record-long deployment supporting operations in Iran.