U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Joseph Rixey, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, has said the U.S. government is set to clear foreign military sales deals worth approximately $40 billion in fiscal year 2016, Reuters reported Wednesday.

Andrea Shalal writes Rixey’s forecast represents a decline from FY 2015’s $46.6 billion in FMS approvals.

He said at the Farnborough International Airshow that there is a strong demand for U.S. weapons and helicopters worldwide and that he does not see any potential impact of U.K.’s decision to exit the European Union on future arms sales with the U.S.

Rixey has unveiled 40 programs that seek to facilitate the process for FMS transactions and address delays in the approval of foreign countries’ military procurement requests, Shalal reports.

“Anything that is in foreign policy review is actually part of the deliberate conversation,” Rixey told Reuters.

“When we get stalled there, the system is not broken, but actually acting as intended.”

Joe Gould and Aaron Mehta also report for Defense News that some diplomats at the State Department believe the Senate Armed Services Committee’s proposed 2017 National Defense Authorization Act would allow the Defense Department to take over the State Department’s role in foreign military assistance programs.

“The Senate NDAA is designed to make DoD’s current role in security cooperation more efficient, more effective and more responsive to emerging national-security requirements,” Dustin Walker, a spokesman for SASC, told Defense News.

“The NDAA would require more integration of DoD and State security cooperation efforts, not less,” he added, according to the report.

The U.S. Army will integrate its electronic warfare division into a new internal cyber directorate after the branch disbanded the EW unit, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday.

Amber Corrin and Mark Pomerleau write the Army’s cyber directorate, which achieved initial operating capability in June, is scheduled to be fully operational next month.

Brig. Gen. Patricia Frost will lead the new directorate that will consist of cyber, electronic warfare and information units, according to the report.

The report said the directorate will also oversee policy, strategy and requirements for all three operations and aims to expand its scope to five areas under Frost’s leadership.

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a supplemental notice of a proposed role for safety management systems in an effort to integrate proactive hazard identification and risk-management based principles on day-to-day operations at airports.

The FAA said Tuesday it seeks to integrate the systems at any Part 139 airport either classified as small, medium or large hub in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems; identified as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a port of entry; or conducts more than 100,000 total annual operations.

Comments are due to the FAA Sept. 12 on the proposal that the agency expects to affect an estimated 260 airports.

The agency will also implement an internal SMS effort that includes risk management for airport planning and development-related federal actions to manage airport operations throughout the FAA’s office of airports organization.

SMS works to act as an organization-wide approach that covers procedures, practices and policies on safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance and safety promotion.

U.S. Army Col. Andrew McClelland, previously chief of the Brigade Modernization Command’s network integration division, has been named commander of the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s European field command.

DISA said Tuesday McClelland will succeed Col. Jacqueline Brown, who previously held the post for two years and transition into a new role at the Pentagon in support of the Army’s chief information officer.

A change of command ceremony took place July 8 in Stuttgart, Germany that was presided by DISA Director and Army Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn.

Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commanding general of the U.S. Army‘s XVIII Airborne Corps, will assume leadership of the country’s military campaign against the Islamic State militant organization in August, Army Times reported Tuesday.

Townsend will succeed Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, III Corps commander, and will take over the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve headquarters with 450 of his soldiers from the XVIII Airborne Corps, Michelle Tan wrote in the story.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Townsend’s appointment along with the news that an additional 560 troops would be deployed to help Iraq’s security forces at the Qayyarah West airfield.