NPC Headliners Newsmaker: General Daniel Hokanson

Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak and take questions at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, July 27 at 10 a.m.

As chief of the National Guard Bureau, Hokanson, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, oversees the training and deployment of more than 453,000 Army and Air National Guard personnel. He commanded the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Iraq and served as the chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Afghanistan.

The National Guard made headlines following the arrest in April of a Massachusetts guardsman who repeatedly mishandled and exposed classified information. Hokanson recently told the Senate Appropriations Committee that he would put in place safeguards to prevent future intelligence breaches.

This Headliners event is open to credentialed media and club members. To submit a question for the speaker, please email [email protected] and put GUARD in the subject line. The deadline for submitting questions in advance is 9 a.m. on the day of the event.