The Defense Department has cleared a list of 151 geographic exclusion zones for commercial shortwave infrared imaging and night-time imaging platforms, Space News reported Tuesday.

Two officials said Thursday at an Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing meeting DoD handed over the list to the Commerce Department to help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facilitate the licensing process for commercial remote sensing systems.

“There is significant risk to military operations as it pertains to the commercial sale of shortwave infrared and imagery that is taken at high resolution at night,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mark Cobos, head of space policy efforts on the Joint Staff.

Cobos said DoD initiated the effort to develop licensing conditions and geographic exclusion zones for commercial shortwave and night-time imaging in January and received approximately 5,000 areas nominated by the national security community for exclusion.

He noted the Pentagon reduced that list to 83 exclusion zones for night-time imaging and 68 for shortwave infrared imaging.

“They are primarily military installations where we conduct training, where we prepare to go to war, where we are employing our force in direct preparation for a mission overseas, or a location overseas where they are currently operating,” Cobos added.

President Donald Trump and the Pentagon have condemned the actions of North Korea following that country’s latest missile launches, one of which saw a rocket cross over Japan’s airspace.

Trump called the most recent launch test a signal of North Korea’s “contempt” toward the international community, Politico reported Tuesday.

“Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world,” he said in a statement, according to the report.

The president added that he will consider all options in forming the U.S. response to the incident.

Politico said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe echoed Trump’s comments and noted the need for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting following the North Korean intermediate-range missile launch Tuesday.

U.S. Pacific Command previously detected three short-range ballistic missiles fired from Kittaeryong Saturday, with two directed toward a northeastern direction, The Hill reported Monday.

The Defense Department said the launch tests remain a threat even if they were fired away from the U.S. or Guam.

“[We] have to make the assumption that they continue to learn throughout each one of these missile launches,” said Pentagon Spokesman Col. Robert Manning.

Maj. Gen. Thomas Geary, assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at the U.S. Air Force, has been tapped to serve as military deputy to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

The Defense Department said Monday Geary’s new assignment is based in Washington.

Geary was appointed to his role at the Air Force in June 2016 after serving as director of ISR strategy, plans, policy and force development at the service branch.

He was also the “de facto” national intelligence manager for civil aviation intelligence and executive director of the National Aviation Intelligence Integration Office under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

He has commanded units such as the National Security Agency/Central Security Service Texas, 17th Training Wing at Goodfellow Air Force Base, 692nd ISR Group at Hickam AFB and 608th Air Intelligence Squadron at Barksdale AFB.

Geary served as a senior intelligence staff with the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan as well as director of intelligence at U.S. Southern Command before working at the Pentagon.

David Norquist, Defense Department undersecretary and comptroller, has said DoD should look at the “full spectrum of threats” as the agency works on the defense budget for fiscal 2019, Defense News reported Monday.

Norquist told Defense News in an interview that possible areas of focus include cybersecurity and munitions.

He also cited the need for DoD to prioritize readiness as the Trump administration seeks to start military buildup efforts in 2019.

“You sustain the readiness and you then start shifting, you may make choices on systems but the readiness of the force you have has to stay a priority,” Norquist said.

“And I don’t think we take a step back from readiness as we’re looking at expanding the capacity and the capability.”

Norquist noted that he thinks subjecting DoD to audits provides an opportunity to analyze the department’s financial practices and leverage the use of data analytics.

“You use data analytics to analyze databases to find trends and patterns. If it’s reliable, then you can use that to drive a lot of changes.”

He said he believes DoD should continue to use overseas contingency operations since OCO helps the department to examine costs amid the challenge posed by budget caps.

“OCO is a way of looking at the costs that relate to overseas contingencies that aren’t part of the core base operations of the department,” Norquist added.

“It’s useful for analysis, it’s useful for planning.”