U.S. President Donald Trump has called on Russia and China to support worldwide efforts to isolate North Korea’s regime as well as implement U.N. security council programs to sever trade and technology ties with the DPKR, DoD News reported Tuesday.

Trump warned Jong Un not to belittle the collaborative will and power of the U.S. and South Korea and demanded the DPKR leader to dispose nuclear weapons in storage and under development.

“It is our responsibility and our duty to confront this danger together, because the longer we wait, the greater the danger grows and the fewer the options become,” said Trump.

“Today I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized nations when I say to the North: Do not underestimate us … We will defend our common security, our shared prosperity, and our sacred liberty.”

The Senate voted 91-7 Tuesday to confirm John Gibson, former president and CEO at XCOR Aerospace, as the Defense Department‘s deputy chief management officer, Military Times reported Tuesday.

Gibson previously held the roles of DoD deputy undersecretary for management reform and  U.S. Air Force assistant secretary for financial management and comptroller.

The Senate Armed Services Committee also moved to advance the nominations of Mark Esper as secretary of the U.S. Army, Robert Wilkie as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, Joseph Kernan as undersecretary of defense for intelligence and Guy Roberts as assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs.

Washington Examiner reported Wednesday the four nominations are still subject to final confirmation votes in the upper chamber and Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), chairman of the SASC, works to accelerate the hearing processes for DoD nominees.

Senate has so far confirmed 17 out of 57 positions within the DoD that President Donald Trump’s administration must fill, the report noted.

The Army National Guard held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday to mark the opening of its aviation support facility with a readiness center in Kankakee, Illinois.

Construction of the Army Aviation Support Facility was financed with $53.7 million in federal funds and $11.9 million in state funds began, the Illinois Army National Guard said Saturday.

The military organization intends to relocate approximately 200 traditional Army National Guard Soldiers, 40 full-time employees and 10 UH-60 Blackhawk utility helicopters from Chicago Midway Armory to the 112,150-square-foot AASF.

AASF features maintenance hangers, shops, flight facilities, fuel distribution, fire suppression systems and a cold storage.

The facility’s 73,050-square-foot readiness center has classrooms, offices, ground equipment maintenance, a weapons simulator and flight simulators, vaults and a medical clinic.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun to study a light-based wireless communication technology that uses light instead of radio waves to facilitate data transmissions.

A demonstration of the Li-Fi technology in a classified work environment showed that the platform can deliver secure networked communication in an enclosed space, DISA said.

The agency expects Li-Fi to provide 10 times faster point-to-point transmission rates than Wi-Fi technology.

“With Li-Fi, the entire visible and non-visible light spectrum is available for use — laying the groundwork for 10 gigabits per second transmission rates within the next calendar year,” said Bill Butler, head of DISA’s Li-Fi University Affiliated Research Center Project.

The military could potentially use Li-Fi to conduct battlefield communications that cannot be detected through existing direction-finding technology, DISA noted.

In the commercial sector, Li-Fi could support communication between vehicles that require integrated high-speed motion detection as well as address technology issues associated with the use of radio platforms in hospitals, airplanes and in construction sites.

Butler said DISA is currently working to acquire equipment and plan a demonstration of Li-Fi in a secure, networked environment.

He added that the agency will continue to partner with the academia on efforts to develop next-generation, non-radio frequency wireless communication technologies for the Defense Department.

The U.S. Air Force has developed capacities to halt unauthorized small unmanned aircraft systems as well as boost the safety and security of base personnel and resources.

The service branch said Monday the 55th Security Forces Squadron now possesses a capacity to prevent sUAS platforms from flying within the airspace and boundaries of the Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska using multiple unique defense systems.

“Our mission is to ensure the safety and security of resources and personnel on base and this is just one method of keeping pace with an ever evolving threat,” said Lt. Col William Smith, commander of the 55th SFS.

“We want the public to be aware that if we feel a sUAS is posing a threat to military operations or flight safety, either intentionally or unintentionally, we have an obligation to respond accordingly,” said Smith.

Current base policies prohibit the recreational and hobby use of sUAS systems within the main base, the Rising View housing areas, the Capehart Chapel, the Ehrling Bergquist Clinic and the Base Lake, the report noted.

UAS users may request permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate commercial sUAS platforms within Offutt AFB if they meet a number of requirements listed on the FAA website including the certification and registration of the drone unit.