The U.S. Air Force will soon expand its nuke-sniffing aircraft fleet with the addition of Lockheed Martin’s modified C-130 Hercules planes, Defense News reported Wednesday.

The service currently has two WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft in its nuke-sniffing arsenal, which Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein believes is too few to address the demands of the Defense Department.

Goldfein added the existing Constant Phoenixes are “too old” to monitor the nuclear activities of U.S. adversaries such as Russia, North Korea, China and Iran.

The Air Force can utilize the C-130s, which can be equipped with Harvester Particulate Airborne Collection Systems kits, when the Constant Phoenixes are not available for nuke-sniffing missions.

The service aims to operate the modified C-130s and retire its two WC-135 planes in 2019.

L3 Technologies will replace the two Constant Phoenixes with three KC-135R aircraft to increase the number of nuke sniffers by one aircraft.

The Air Force proposed $208 million of funding in 2019 and $8 million in 2020 for the Constant Phoenix modernization effort.

Maj. Gen John Jansen, commandant of the National Defense University’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, has been nominated to be deputy commandant for programs and resources at the U.S. Marine Corps.

President Trump also endorsed Jansen’s appointment to the rank of lieutenant general, the Defense Department said Monday.

Jansen would serve as principal financial adviser to the USMC commandant and the service branch’s principal spokesperson on budget and program matters across the Department of the Navy and DoD.

In his current role, he supervises 380 personnel and implements senior-level courses focused on national security and resourcing strategy.

He has logged more than 3100 flight hours, including 2800 hours with the F/A-18 aircraft and more than 480 arrested carrier landings.

USMC commissioned Jansen in 1986 and designated him as naval aviator for VMFAT-101 at the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, Calif.,  in 1990.

Jansen also worked for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, and completed a joint assignment as an arms control inspection team chief and a unit executive officer there.

The Defense Information Systems Agency intends to release in June the final solicitation for a potential 10-year, $8.2 billion contract that seeks to procure a commercial cloud service to accommodate all of the military’s office productivity and email platforms, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

DISA said it is in the process of responding to a set of industry questions for the single-award Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract that will have a five-year base term and five option years and expects companies to submit their offers within 45 days following the release of the final request for proposals.

The DEOS contract will cover office suite, collaboration and online meeting tools, email platform, content management software and internet protocol-based replacement for the Defense Department’s video and voice teleconferencing systems.

DISA plans to initially transition approximately 1.5 million DoD users to a single cloud software-as-a-service offering within 18 months of the contract award, according to the report.

Brian Hermann, portfolio manager for unified capabilities at DISA, said DoD believes awarding the DEOS project to a single vendor would help facilitate interoperability and collaboration among Pentagon personnel.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has implemented initiatives to simplify the review process for mobile applications, increase security and expand the availability of tablet devices for Defense Department military and civilian personnel.

Approximately 1,600 customers use the classified communications service from the DoD Mobility Program, DISA said Monday.

Jake Marcellus, the program’s manager, told audience at a recent Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association-hosted symposium that DISA has provided unclassified mobility services to more than 100,000 civilians and service members.

The agency collaborates with authorization officials to determine requirements and accelerate the process to approve mobile apps designed for DOD Mobility Unclassified Capability users.

DISA also completed the first phase of mobile endpoint protection development project and chose two vendors to test a prototype during the second phase.

Frank Cabral Jr., the program’s deputy portfolio manager, said the agency plans to implement a third DOD Mobility Classified Capability gateway outside the continental U.S.

The platform is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2018.

DISA also started to offer an Android tablet designed to support non-data at rest and at the DMCC-Secret level, as well as secure voice communications via the Defense Red Switch Network and Defense Enterprise Email systems.

The agency intends to conduct a pilot test of a Windows 10 DMCC-S tablet built to support data at rest.