The House voted 188-226 Wednesday to reject a measure that would have limited the fiscal 2019 funding for a low-yield version of the nuclear warhead W76 for Trident II missiles aboard nuclear submarines, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Reps. Jim Garamendi (D-Calif.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced the proposal as an amendment to the lower chamber’s draft version of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.

The decision came after a group of former national security officials wrote a letter to Congress to decline the Trump administration’s budget request for the nuclear warhead variant W76-2.

The Defense Department released in February the Nuclear Posture Review that suggested the development of a sea-launched cruise missile and a low-yield nuclear weapon for Trident II.

The Defense Department has sought comments from the White House on a recently completed defense industrial base review that is expected to identify weaknesses in the supply chain, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Lt. Col. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman for DoD, told the publication that interagency evaluation is now under way for the review.

President Donald Trump requested the review through an executive order signed in July 2017 in order to assess gaps in domestic production capabilities related to national security.

The Trump administration called off in December plans to poll several U.S. contractors as part of the industrial base review and decided to use data agencies already collect instead of asking for proprietary data to detect gaps.

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.