Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer at the Defense Department, has signed updated guidance for the management of information technology services across DoD, FCW reported Friday.

Halvorsen said the third version of the DoD Enterprise Service Management Framework guidance focuses on IT performance and risk management, Sean Lyngaas writes.

The report said the Pentagon has incorporated into DESMF III new models designed to help defense agencies evaluate the processes used to deliver IT services and measure the quality of such services.

Halvorsen said DoD included such models in response to the request of David Cotton, DoD deputy CIO for information enterprise.

Halvorsen, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2016, signed the revised guidance six months after he released a directive in December that requires defense agencies to use DESMF as a framework to assess their IT performance, Lyngaas wrote.

President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Maj. Gen. Steven Shepro, vice director of strategic plans and policy (J-5) for the Joint Staff, as deputy chairman of NATO’s military committee.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced in a notice published Friday that Shepro has also been designated for a promotion to the rank of lieutenant general.

If confirmed, he will lead the committee that provides military advice to the North Atlantic Council and the Nuclear Planning Group as well as guidance for the Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation.

Shepro currently oversees the development and execution of the Defense Department‘s national military strategy.

He previously served as director of air operations and deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and requirements at the Air Force as well as held positions at the Coalition Command, Air Staff and Combatant Command.

He also commanded several military units at the operational squadron, group and wing levels and led frontline battlefield airmen during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The 32-year Air Force veteran has completed more than 3,000 flying hours with F-16, A-10, H-1 and C-27 aircraft.

The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to align its data on civilian and military positions that have headquarters functions with its updated definition of departmentwide headquarters activities.

GAO said in a report released Thursday that DoD also lacks plans to gather data on costs related to headquarters functions.

“This may hinder DoD’s ability to conduct an in-depth review for purposes of consolidating and streamlining headquarters functions,” GAO said in the report.

The Pentagon initiated in 2014 four programs that aim to achieve efficiency within its headquarters organizations, but GAO said it was not able to evaluate the effects of the initiatives due to lack of available results at the time of its review.

These programs include the Office of the Secretary of Defense Organizational Delayering Initiative, Business Process and System Reviews, Services Requirements Review Board, and Review of the Organization and Responsibilities of DoD.

DoD also assessed its six business processes in 2015 and determined potential cumulative savings of between $62 billion and $84 billion over a five-year period starting in fiscal year 2016, according to the report.

The congressional audit agency also found that DoD has launched efforts to comply with a GAO recommendation, including the creation of a framework for activities within headquarters organizations and identification of organizations that meet the revised definition of headquarters activities.

DoD also plans to introduce updates to a database in an effort to make headquarters resources more visible, the report noted.

Maj. Gen. John Horner, former deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, has been appointed as director of the Defense Department Special Access Program Central Office.

DoD said Friday Horner will also serve as the director of special programs at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics at the Pentagon.

Horner recently served as acting director of DTRA, head of the U.S. Strategic Command‘s standing joint force headquarters for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction as well as acting director of Stratcom’s Center for Combating WMD at Fort Belvoir.

He also recorded more than 4,000 flight hours as a command pilot and held various roles for operations, intelligence, command and control and manpower and personnel for the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service, U.S. European Command, Air Force Aerospace Strategy Development Branch and U.S. Central Air Forces.