President Joe Biden still had to fill a high-ranking gap in the Navy that his predecessor had left him. The post of Secretary of the Navy was only temporarily filled following the unfortunate performances of various personalities during the coronavirus pandemic. After being nominated by the President in June, acknowledged by Congress and heard by the Senate Armed Services Committee in July, Cuban-born Carlos del Toro was confirmed in office at the beginning of August and sworn in at the Pentagon by Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III at the end of August. Del Toro had left the US Navy as a commander after 22 years and set up his own business in the field of industrial support. He has four academic degrees from the naval academies and George Washington University, was commander of an ARLEIGH-BURKE destroyer and had already made a name for himself in the Pentagon's top echelons. After 17 years, Del Toro is returning to the navy and the topics of the 355-ship navy by 2030, ongoing tensions with China and the defence of Taiwan, as well as personnel modernisation and climate change. There will probably also be climate change in the Department of the Navy - good luck with that!
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