Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Virginia) plan to launch an inquiry into the scope of Russian intelligence efforts that have affected the U.S.

Burr and Warner said in a joint statement published Friday the panel will review any information that potentially supports a U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.

The committee also plans to investigate counterintelligence concerns about Russia and persons associated with political campaigns as well as Russian activity in cyberspace and other “active measures” that targeted the U.S.

The bipartisan inquiry will also include interviews of outgoing and incoming senior government officials and the panel expects to produce unclassified and classified reports on the findings of its investigation, Burr and Warner added.

Both senators said the Director of National Intelligence assured that the IC will support the committee’s requests for information concerning the inquiry.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Arizona) has released a white paper that seeks to propose a base budget of $640 billion for the Defense Department and $60 billion in overseas contingency operations funds for fiscal year 2018, the Washington Examiner reported Monday.

David Brown and Jacqueline Klimas write McCain’s base budget proposal for DoD in the paper titled Restoring American Power would be $54 billion higher than President Barack Obama’s planned budget.

The document aims to lay out plans to facilitate a military build-up over the next five years that include a DoD base budget of $750.5 billion by FY 2022 and procurement of 59 ships.

McCain’s white paper reflects a $430 billion increase over the Obama administration’s current plans over a five-year period, according to a report by Joe Gould for Defense News.

He also proposed to cap the littoral combat ship program to 28 vessels in 2017 in an effort to start the purchase of small surface combatant ships by 2022.

Other proposals in McCain’s white paper include the procurement of additional 58 Boeing-built F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets and 16 more EA-18G Growler aircraft by the U.S. Navy, efforts to increase the U.S. Marines Corps’ service personnel to 200,000 by 2022, and the U.S. Air Force’s sustainment of the A-10 fighter fleet and acquisition of 300 light-attack fighter jets by 2022.

Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer at the Defense Department since March 2015, will retire from government by Feb. 28, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.

Jared Serbu writes Halvorsen said that he expects DoD to continue the department’s  information technology policies and priorities in the next administration.

“Our dialogue with the transition team seems to indicate that the new administration thinks we’re on the right track, and the emphasis on mission effectiveness, getting more agile and relying more and more on commercial capabilities will continue,” Halvorsen told Federal News Radio.

He noted data center consolidation as among the projects DoD found difficult to accomplish.

DoD’s office inspector general found during an assessment that the department addressed only 18 percent of the Office of Management and Budget‘s established 40-percent consolidation target for federal data centers by the end o fiscal 2015, according to the station.

Halvorsen added that the implementation of the Joint Information Environment — a concept to consolidate, harmonize and secure military services and agencies’ IT footprints — cannot be tested because the information environment continues to change.