The Defense Department‘s inspector general has reported that the U.S. Navy does not have an information technology strategy to oversee its financial management systems.

DoD IG said Thursday auditors found that Navy personnel use financial management tools that do not meet standards for the preparation of auditable financial statements.

The Navy and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service spent $2.5 billion over the past decade and plan to spend $823.4 million in the next five years to maintain and develop the Navy’s financial management systems, the report noted.

The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 requires federal agencies to submit annual financial statements that can be audited.

DoD IG noted the Navy’s financial management systems might not support auditable financial statements and the military branch might not meet the congressional mandate to prepare such statements by September 30, 2017.

The inspector general called on the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management and Comptroller to establish milestones and performance measures for a Navy-wide strategic plan on financial management systems.

President Donald Trump intends to nominate Patrick Shanahan, Boeing senior vice president of supply chain and operations, as deputy secretary of defense.

Trump announced plans to nominate Shanahan and five other individuals to various Defense Department posts in a White House press release published Thursday.

Shanahan currently oversees Boeing’s manufacturing operations and supplier management programs, serves on the executive council and leads the company’s environment, health and safety and intellectual property management groups.

The three-decade Boeing veteran previously served as SVP of commercial airplane programs and was responsible for the profit and loss management of the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 programs as well as operations at principal manufacturing sites in Washington state and South Carolina.

Shanahan held vice president and general manager roles for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft, missile defense systems business unit and rotorcraft systems segment.

He is a fellow with the Royal Aeronautical Society, Society of Manufacturing Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Maj. Gen. Bo Dyess, acting director of the U.S. Army capabilities integration center, has said the U.S. Air Force is “very close” to forming a partnership with the Army to create new functionalities for the multi-domain battle concept.

Dyess said Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Global Force Symposium that the service branch would require in the future warfare air defense platforms designed to fight anti-access/anti-denial systems as well as the Air Force’s close air support in order to move soldiers through contested environments, the Army reported Thursday.

The possible collaboration with the Air Force comes nearly two months after the Army and Marine Corps formed a joint task force and released a white paper about the multi-domain battle concept.

“Multi-domain battle is an evolution, not a revolution,” Dyess said.

“It’s a natural evolution of combined arms designed to meet challenges of the 21st century,” he added.

Dyess noted that the Army Training and Doctrine Command has started to integrate some of the concept’s aspects with the Army Doctrine Publication 3.0 that seeks to detail a common operational framework for warfighters.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein also introduced the multi-domain command-and-control concept that aims to facilitate decision-making processes, situational awareness and use of aerial assets in future combat.

The Senate voted 86-10 Wednesday to let H.R. McMaster keep his military status as a three-star lieutenant general with the U.S. Army while he serves as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Joe Gould writes that senators did not have to subject McMaster’s appointment to confirmation in the upper chamber but the law requires them to reconfirm a military officer of three star rank or above when the officer has been appointed for a different position.

President Trump selected McMaster to be his national security adviser after Michael Flynn resigned from the role last month.

The Senate Armed Services Committee backed the approval of McMaster to retain his current rank through a 23-2 vote last week.

“McMaster’s distinguished career has included multiple overseas tours in the service of our country, experiences that will be invaluable as he provides President Trump with advice on the many challenges facing the United States around the globe,” the White House said Wednesday.