Just before 5 p.m., he transferred his authority to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. In a statement late Sunday night ...

Kathleen Hicks is the Department of Defense’s deputy secretary. She was confirmed by the Senate in February 2021, making her the first woman to assume the second-highest ranking civilian job at ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Kathleen H. Hicks is a Deputy Secretary for the Department of Defense with 76 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Senate Committee as a ...

The inspector general found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks mismanaged protocols during his 2024 hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment. In a ...

The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

had sought to keep his condition and the fact that he had been incapacitated while under general anesthesia secret from President Joe Biden and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. Robert ...

Neither Austin’s chief of staff nor Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks knew of his cancer diagnosis or the procedure he underwent in December 2023. In fact, OIG notes that "nearly all of ...