Jaimie Reese, former deputy director of the Navy’s business and civilian resources division, has joined the Marine Corps Systems Command as senior executive and comptroller for the service branch’s acquisition command.

The U.S. Navy said Thursday Reese will hold comptroller responsibilities associated with planning, programming, budgeting and accounting of all Procurement-Marine Corps research as well as the operation and maintenance funds of day-to-day operations.

“In order to be successful as you progress through your career and assume leadership billets, one of the most important things you can do is surround yourself with the right people,” said Brig. Gen. Joseph Shrader, MCSC commander.

Reese previously served as a financial management trainee, aviation lead analyst and shipbuilding lead analyst for the Department of the Navy and as a comptroller for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, formerly commander of the Air Force Space Command, has officially started his new post as head of U.S. Strategic Command.

The Air Force said Thursday it held a change of command ceremony at Stratcom’s Offutt Air Force Base headquarters in Nebraska and Hyten succeeds Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, who will retire from active duty in January 2017,

President Barack Obama nominated Hyten in September for the role to oversee Stratcom’s missions in strategic deterrence, space operations, joint electronic warfare, global strike and missile defense missions.

Hyten’s role at Air Force Space Command carried responsibility over how Stratcom, North American Aerospace Defense Command and other combatant commands organize, train and maintain mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and systems.

“In the days to come, Stratcom’s mission will continue to remain vitally important to the bedrock of our security, and General Hyten will lead this critical team with the full trust and confidence of me, [Gen. Joseph Dunford] and President Obama,” said Defense Secretary Ash Carter.

The deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system to South Korea will occur within eight-to-10 months, Reuters reported Friday.

U.S. Forces Korea Commander Brooks told South Korea’s Yonhap news agency that the U.S. looks to rotate strategic weaponry in the Korean peninsula to deter North Korean threats, Christine Kim and Ju-min Park wrote for Reuters.

The U.S. and South Korea decided to deploy THAAD on the Korean Peninsula in July amid North Korea’s round of nuclear and ballistic missile tests.

South Korea said it wants THAAD to become operational in 2017, Reuters stated.

The U.S. Army has outlined a strategy to counter adversaries’ unmanned aircraft systems with a focus on cross-domain, inter-organizational and multinational efforts, Defense News reported Wednesday.

Jen Judson writes the strategy’s unclassified version Army’s Training and Doctrine Command states the service branch seeks to provide counter-UAS systems across the doctrine, organization, training, material, leadership, personnel and facility-policy framework.

The plan also eyes combined arms that synchronize the capacity of all warfighting functions as well as a “whole-of-government” approach that will involve joint, inter-organizational and multinational partners across the government, Judson reported.

The Army said the U.S. and foreign partners should combine counter-UAS efforts to address redundancies and conflicts since multinational partners have their own strategies, Defense News stated.

Senior military leaders from four defense organizations have discussed potential challenges on future operations at an industry partners meeting in Missouri, DoD News reported Wednesday.

Terri Moon Cronk writes U.S. Air Force Gen. Carlton Everhart, Air Mobility Command chief, said defense leaders rely on industry partners to deliver new capacity and help modernize the command to meet the country’s security needs.

Everhart also noted the challenges of his command include a national pilot shortage and and evolving global threat environment which U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Kurt Ryan, commander of the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, said is volatile.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Andrew Busch, DLA director, added that he wants the agency to collaborate with industry partners on potential challenges that DLA might face in the next 30 years and discuss strategies on cyber resilience against trans-regional threats and future basing to develop concepts.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dee Mewbourne, Military Sealift Command commander, noted that some of the challenges his command has faced include how to retain “relevancy” and continue to adapt with the world today as needed.