President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as CIA director, the Washington Post reported Friday.

David Nakamura and Elise Viebeck write Pompeo is a Harvard Law School and U.S. Military Academy graduate who was elected to the lower chamber of Congress in 2010.

He previously served as a cavalry officer in the U.S. Army, an attorney at the Washington-based law firm Williams & Connolly and president of an oil-field equipment manufacturing company, Nakamura and Viebeck report.

Prior to his political career, Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace in Wichita, Kansas, according to a report by Elana Schor, Kyle Cheney, Alex Isenstadt and Louis Nelson for Politico.

Former House Speaker John Boehner also appointed Pompeo to serve in a House committee in charge of the investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya, the report said.

Pompeo “will be a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community to ensure the safety of Americans and our allies,” Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.

The announcement comes a day after Trump named Michael Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, as national security adviser.

U.S. Army Secretary Eric Fanning has said at the Defense One Summit in Washington, D.C. that he wants to discuss the Army’s modernization efforts with President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team.

The Army said Friday Fanning’s priorities include “further defining what the Army of the future needs to win” as well as efforts to restructure the service branch to address current technology deployment challenges.

“As is the case in every transition, the main message is, ‘We are here, and we will do whatever is necessary to make this [transition] as smooth as possible,” Fanning said.

Fanning also seeks to work with the next administration to integrate behavioral health services into the Army’s post-deployment transition programs.

He added the Army should be prepared to do business with all industry sectors and be more open to commercial off-the-shelf technology.

The U.S. Air Force looks to hire new employees with skills on technical aspects by the end of 2017 that include 1,400 cyber and 2,200 acquisition workers for the service branch’s civilian service.

The service branch said Thursday it currently employs 27,000 acquisition and 9,500 cyber civilian employees around the world stationed at more than 80 Air Force installations with a majority based in the U.S.

“Our efforts have intensified on these two career fields to increase the pool of talented candidates,” said Mike Brosnan, the Air Force Personnel Center’s workforce planning and talent acquisitions chief.

The Air Force has used hiring events in a push to recruit new talent such as a Nov. 16 event at Los Angeles Air Force Base, where the branch sought to fill more than 350 acquisition vacancies.

The Air Force has also authorized the use of incentives for recruitment, relocation, retention and student loan repayment in support of its recruitment mission in the acquisition career field.

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein has said military leaders need a common operating system that will work to collect and assess data as well as provide situational awareness in order to operate in the age of information warfare, DoD News reported Friday.

Jim Garamone writes Goldfein made the remarks Thursday during a conversation with Defense One’s Marcus Weisberger at the Defense One Summit in Washington.

Goldfein said the service branch has started the Data to Decision experiment that aims to collect data from all domains and put the information into a single common operating platform.

He also cited the need for novel technology platforms designed for use in intelligence analysis, Garamone reports.

“We got to get into the next stage, which is machine-to-machine, human/machine teaming, and artificial intelligence — to turn all that data into decision-quality information and then you act,” he said.

Goldfein, who assumed his post in July, told Weisberger that he aims to facilitate discussions on the future of joint warfare and combined arms, the report added.

Raj Shah, managing director of the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental organization, said that DIUx will expand its presence nationwide through the help of technology experts from the U.S. military’s National Guard and Reserve components, DoD News reported Thursday.

“We have reservists working in technology companies of all sizes [and] maturities across the nation and they have a deep desire to continue to serve,” Shah told the CyberCon 2016 forum.

“We’re setting up a new reserve unit across the services, including the National Guard, where we will be able to help build the team that gives us access to new technology.”

Cheryl Pellerin reports that DIUx has inked 12 contracts valued at $36 million with multiple technology companies to date and looks to finalize 15 more contracts worth $60 million for innovation projects in the robotics, machine learning, biotechnology, networking and cyber defense areas.

Shah also discussed the lessons learned and progress made by the organization’s second outpost during the CyberCon event.

He said that lessons DIUx 2.0 learned from predecessors include relationships with team members that understand challenges of working with the government as well as resources to keep businesses operational and a focus on problem sets that need to be addressed.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said “building the force of the future” requires recruitment, training and retention of service members as well as provision of healthcare support to uniformed personnel, DoD News reported Thursday.

Karen Parrish writes Carter made the remarks Wednesday during his visit to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.

He spoke with training instructors of the U.S. Air Force and visited Brooke Army Medical Center.

”We have military competitors. And, it’s important for us to build the force of the future that will be the best,” Carter noted.

He told reporters that the Defense Department is prepared to welcome President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, according to the report.