Maj. Gen. Clinton Crosier, director of operational capability requirements for the U.S. Air Force deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and requirements, has been appointed as director of warfighting integration capability within the same office, the Defense Department said Thursday.

In his current role, Crosier develops policy for operational capabilities-based requirements and oversees the creation of requirements documents for the approval of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.

Crosier joined the Air Force in 1988 and has since assumed posts of increasing responsibility, such as director of plans and policy at the U.S. Strategic Command; deputy director of Stratcom’s global operations directorate; and director of strategic plans, programs, requirements and assessments at the Air Force Global Strike Command.

His experience spans intercontinental ballistic missile and space operations, including stints as director of space forces at the U.S. Central Command; commander of the 460th Space Wing; and space and missile adviser to the Secretary of the Air Force Action Group, among others.

Crosier holds a degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University, which he attended on an Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship.

The U.S. Army has begun to deploy a lighter variant of its tactical network called the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical as part of a plan to field the on-the-move communications platform to priority light infantry units over the next years, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Paul Mehney, an Army spokesman, told Defense News that the WIN-T Tactical Communications Node-Lite and the Network Operations Security Center-Lite were delivered to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

TCN-L is designed to provide beyond-line-of-sight and high-bandwidth line-of-sight communications while on-the-move or at the halt, as well as support deployment at stationary command posts.

NOSC works to help soldiers manage and secure the tactical network.

The service branch conducted an operational test of TCN-L and NOSC at the Network Integration Evaluation event in July 2017, which yielded mostly positive soldier feedback, the report noted.

The Army is scheduled to stop the acquisition of the second increment of WIN-T by the end of fiscal year 2018 because the current network does not meet future warfighting requirements.

The U.S. Army aims to acquire and create new vertical lift aircraft variants for operations in the 2030s and beyond, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Future vertical lift was listed third among top modernization priorities when the Army stoop up a new command in the fall.

Brig. Gen. Frank Tate, director of Army aviation in the service branch’s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Planning and Training, said the service branch looks to change its methods for acquiring assets such as vertical lift aircraft.

The report noted the Army developed a new concept on how it aims to acquire future helicopters along with technologies that can boost the capacities of the FVL.

Tate said the service branch will separate work for the procurement of aircraft airframe with work to create mission systems.

He suggested the Army to establish a digital backbone architecture for mission systems, software and hardware students in a similar way that apps are created for Apple and Samsung products.

President Donald Trump has vowed to rebuild the U.S. military strength and called on lawmakers to fully fund defense operations and put an end to military spending cuts in his first state of the union address, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Trump cited the threats posed by foreign countries such as North Korea, Iran, China and Russia as well as terrorism to national security and pledged to launch “a campaign of maximum pressure” against North Korea’s nuclear missile initiatives.

“In confronting these dangers, we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict, and unmatched power is the surest means of our defense,” he said.

He also mentioned his administration’s military strategy in Afghanistan as well as the role of U.S. military missions against the Islamic State militant group in the Middle East, the report added.