Ben FitzGerald, director of the Defense Department‘s strategy and design office, has said DoD intends to adopt a “data-driven approach” as it works to reorganize the acquisition, technology and logistics office, DoD News reported Thursday.

FitzGerald officially assumed his current role Jan. 2 to oversee the split of the AT&L organization into two units: acquisition and sustainment; and research and engineering.

He said such an approach would call for DoD to analyze data associated with the acquisition process and capability portfolios and noted that the two-year reorganization effort should also focus on sustainment.

“An opportunity to innovate is usually in the sustainment phase,” he said Tuesday at an American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council-hosted seminar.

“We need to figure out how to bring that community up front so it can influence how we design, so we can design for sustainment, so we have ways to prototype into sustainment, so we can think about the sustainment of [areas such as] software.”

FitzGerald asked industry to offer recommendations and feedback on the restructuring effort, which he said seeks to provide authority for rapid prototyping and fielding activities.

The U.S. Navy has demonstrated remote aircraft landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier using the Aircraft Terminal Approach Remote Inceptor, or ATARI.

The test marked the first at-sea use of the ATARI system, which was developed by the Naval Air Systems Command and has been tested onshore with a Learjet aircraft in 2016, the Navy said Wednesday.

ATARI is designed to give landing signal officers the option to remotely maneuver an aircraft during recovery operations.

The system is intended to serve as a backup landing method in case LSOs need to take over and guide an aircraft.

The Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 installed ATARI into F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets in 2017 and conducted tests and quality assurance ahead of the first sea-based demonstration.

The test aboard USS Abraham Lincoln involved an F/A-18 aircraft that was manned by a safety pilot.

ATARI engineers will evaluate data from the test and make changes for further at-sea testing.

The remote landing platform is not yet approved for fleet-wide use, but the test provides a potential for future implementation, the Navy noted.

President Donald Trump has nominated James Anderson, a former intelligence officer at the U.S. Marine Corps, to be assistant defense secretary for strategy, plans and capabilities.

Anderson serves as vice president of academic affairs at Marine Corps University and oversees MCU’s academic and professional military education programs in that capacity, the White House said Tuesday.

He previously served as director of Middle East policy at the Pentagon’s Office of the Secretary of Defense.

He is a recipient of the Department of the Army Superior Civilian Service Award and the OSD Medal for Exceptional Public Service.

Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Amherst College, as well as a master’s degree in law and diplomacy and a Ph.D in international relations from the Tufts University.

The Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity conducted an extensive adversarial cyber test of the Light Armored Vehicle last month at Camp Pendleton in California.

The Marine Corps Systems Command’s LTV program manager required the technical assessment, the Department of the Navy said Monday.

Capt. Brian Greunke, network test engineer at MCTSSA, said the test aimed to identify potential cyber vulnerabilities in the vehicle and examine the potential impact of a vulnerability on missions.

“As vehicle platforms change vehicle control from a purely mechanical form to a digital form, the surface area for attacks increases significantly,” Greunke added.

Chim Yee, MCTSSA cyber engineer, said that adversarial cyber tests offer information that can support risk management and mitigation efforts.