Maj. Gen. Christopher Bentley, senior adviser to the Ministry of Defense for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, will succeed Lt. Gen. Michael Shields as director of the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization.

The Defense Department said Friday the U.S. Army chief of staff announced the assignment of Bentley, who will work under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in Fort Belvoir, Va., and move from Afghanistan.

JIDO became part of DTRA in 2016 and was renamed from the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency pursuant to that year’s National Defense Authorization Act.

Bentley has also served as deputy director of operations at the National Joint Operations Intelligence Center as part of Operations Team – 1 (J-3) of the Joint Staff in Washington.

The U.S. Air Force‘s safety reporting system, known as the AF Safety Automated System, has been equipped with a new module designed to help safety practitioners and commanders identify and locate hazards in the service’s installations.

This new capability provides safety professionals and commanders with a single user-friendly tool to identify and track hazards across their installations and increase visibility of all hazards Air Force-wide.

The AFSAS inspection module combines the communication and tracking of risk assessment code one through five hazards with the automatic transferring of code one through three hazards to the Master Hazard Abatement Program, USAF said Monday.

The new feature is also geared to facilitate the overseeing of over 1,000 code one through three hazards and the management of abatement costs valued at $142 million.

Senior Master Sgt. Jakob Kurtz, chief of the AF Occupational Safety Investigation, Reports and Analysis Branch, expects the module to terminate the need for extensive paper processes and legacy databases.

Inspectors will also be granted synchronized access to 30,000 general industry standards from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Inspection System via the module.

The USAF Safety Center established AFSAS in 2007 to gather safety data, record investigations and keep track of hazard mitigation and abatement activities.

Dana Deasy, chief information officer of the Defense Department, discussed his plans to pursue innovation and collaboration for DoD’s information technology initiatives under the National Defense Strategy.

He told members of the DoD IT community at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium Wednesday in Baltimore about his priority, the Defense Information Systems Agency said Friday.

“The three tenets are lethality, alliances, and reform,” Deasy said, advising the community to align efforts with the DoD mission through the National Defense Strategy.

He added that he seeks innovation in the fields of cyber, cloud, IT environment and approaches to data integration such as artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning.

Deasy, who was named CIO of DoD in April and formally assumed the role on May 7 after his tenure with JPMorgan Chase, also noted the value of IT collaboration with other federal organizations, the industry and academia.

Maj. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyber Command, has been nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as deputy commandant for information and commander of the Marine Corps Forces Strategic Command.

Trump also endorsed Reynolds for promotion to the rank of lieutenant general, Defense Secretary James Mattis announced in a Defense Department news release published Friday.

C4ISRNET reported that Reynolds is set to succeed Lt. Gen. Daniel O’Donohue, who is due to transition to the Joint Staff in a new position.

The Marine Corps formed the deputy commandant for information role in the summer of 2017 in an effort to align cyber, electronic warfare, signals intelligence and other information-related capability through a single structure.

Reynolds previously served as commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group and commanding general of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Recruiting Region at Parris Island in South Carolina.

The 32-year Marine Corps veteran also served as an acquisition project officer at the Marine Corps Systems Command and principal director under the office of the defense undersecretary for the Asia and Pacific.