Philip Bilden, a 25-year veteran of private equity firm HarbourVest Partners and former military intelligence officer at the U.S. Army Reserve, has been nominated to succeed Ray Mabus as secretary of the U.S. Navy.

“If confirmed, I will ensure that our sailors and marines have the resources they need to defend our interests around the globe and support our allies with commitment and capability,” Bilden said in a statement published Wednesday on the White House’s website.

He served in the Army Reserve for 10 years, then resigned from military service in 1996 to establish HarbourVest Partners’ Asian subsidiary in Hong Kong.

His more than two-decade career at the investment company includes roles such as co-founding member, senior adviser and head of executive committee focused on governance.

He currently serves on the philanthropic boards of multiple nonprofit organizations that support military veterans, cybersecurity and national security programs.

Bilden is a member of the board of visitors at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; board of directors at the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation; board of trustees at the Naval War College Foundation; and Asia Pacific advisory board and dean’s board of advisors at Harvard Business School.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Israel’s missile defense organization have finished the fifth series of tests on a missile defense system designed to intercept short-range ballistic missiles and large caliber rockets.

MDA said Wednesday the David’s Sling weapon system intercepted three threat-representative targets via Stunner missiles during the test series held at Yanat Sea Range in Israel.

David Sling Test 5 also utilized an Elbit Systems-built battle management system to calculate the defense plans for the tests as well as an Israel Aerospace Industries-made multimission radar that helped detect targets after missile launch.

“We remain strongly committed to supporting Israel’s development of a missile defense system,” said Vice Adm. Jim Syring, MDA director.

Raytheon‘s missile systems division supports the David’s Sling weapon system program as a subcontractor to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.

Program engineers will analyze and use data from the tests in the ongoing development and fielding of the David’s Sling, which will be a central element of Israel’s multilayer antimissile network.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, has said the U.S. needs to deter “bad behavior” and conflict in space amid efforts of Russia and China to build weapons for space deployment, Stratcom reported Tuesday.

Clifton B. Parker writes Hyten told audience during a talk at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation that space should be available for exploration and that the U.S. should consider space as a potential war environment.

He said the Air Force needs a new ground missile defense base interceptor, an updated air-to-air missile and a long-range strike missile platform.

Hyten, who assumed his post in November, also urged the U.S. to evaluate its nuclear deterrence strategy and called for the advancement of “international norms of behavior in space,” the report added.

The U.K.’s defense ministry has requested to buy Oshkosh-built Joint Light Tactical Vehicles for the British army through the U.S. government’s foreign military sales program, Defense News reported Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Robert Talbot Rice, land equipment director at U.K.’s defense ministry, said at a conference in London that U.K. has submitted a letter of request to the U.S. government and expects a response in the next months, Andrew Chuter wrote.

“On the basis of the assessment on price and value for money, we made the case to go the FMS route,” Talbot Rice added.

Oshkosh won a potential $6.7 billion contract from the U.S. Army in Aug. 2015 to build more than 50,000 JLTVs that will replace the Army and the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Humvees.

JLTVs will carry troops and support other light duties as part of the British army’s Multi-Role Vehicle-Protected program if the FMS sale pushes through, the report stated.