U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Gilday, current director of operations at the U.S. Cyber Command, has been nominated to serve as commander of the military branch’s Fleet Cyber Command that operates as the Tenth Fleet.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that President Barack Obama hass also endorsed Gilday for promotion to the rank of vice admiral.

If confirmed by Senate, Gilday would lead the command that supports the Navy’s networks, cryptologic and signals intelligence, information operations, space, electronic warfare and cyber technologies at sea and onshore.

He previously worked for the Bureau of Naval Personnel, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations’ strategic plans and policy directorate and the Office of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations.

Gilday also served as naval aide to the U.S. president, executive assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, director of operations at NATO’s Joint Force Command in Lisbon, Portugal, and chief of staff for Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO.

He also previously commanded the USS Higgins, USS Benfold, Destroyer Squadron 7 and Carrier Strike Group 8 as well as served aboard the USS Gettysburg during Operation Desert Fox, USS Princeton during Desert Shield/Storm and USS Chandler during the Iran-Iraq War.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Tod Wolters, director of operations (J-3) for the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, has received nomination to the role of commander for U.S. Air Forces Europe, U.S. Air Forces Africa and Allied Air Command.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Tuesday that President Barack Obama also nominated Wolters as director of the Joint Air Power Competence Center at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and for promotion to the rank of general.

In his current role, Wolters is responsible for the development of strategic guidance for the combatant commands and for the communications between the president, the defense secretary and the combatant commanders in support of operations and plans.

His command assignments included the 19th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base, 1st Operations Group at Langley AFB, 485th Air Expeditionary Wing in Saudi Arabia, 47th Flying Training Wing at Laughlin AFB and 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall AFB.

He also deployed on various missions such as operations Desert Storm, Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Wolters was a director of legislative liaison in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force and deputy chief of staff for operations at the Air Force headquarters.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Stayce Harris, commander of 22nd Air Force within the Air Force Reserve Command at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia, has been nominated to the role of assistant Air Force vice chief of staff.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced Tuesday President Barack Obama also recommended Harris for the rank of lieutenant general and for the position of director of the Air Staff.

Harris was previously the mobilization assistant to the commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois prior to her current role.

From July 2009 to July 2012, she served as the mobilization assistant to the commander of U.S. Africa Command at the Pentagon, with the rank of brigadier general.

Harris also held staff assignments for the deputy chief of staff for plans and operations and for the deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force.

Her command roles covered an airlift squadron, an expeditionary operations group and an air refueling wing.

Harris joined the Air Force Reserve in 1991 after she served on active duty.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) has proposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 that would remove a provision that imposes a restriction on the U.S. Navy’s use of funds when it comes to the acquisition of littoral combat ships.

The proposed amendment to the FY 2017 NDAA is in response to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s request to the service branch in December to reduce the procurement of LCS from 52 to 40, Johnson’s office said Tuesday.

“The U.S. Navy has pointed out the significance of the littoral combat ship as a critical component of the fleet,” Johnson said.

“The Navy deserves certainty as it plans for its current and future ship needs, and it is not in our country’s best interest to restrict funding for the needs of the men and women of our naval forces in the face of global threats,” he added.

The White House has threatened to veto a Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2017 over provisions that would impose organizational changes at the Pentagon and block planned closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison, The Hill newspaper reported Tuesday.

Rebecca Kheel writes the Senate’s defense policy bill includes a proposal to split up the responsibilities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics between two other offices.

“Reorganizing DOD without careful study and consideration would undermine the department’s ability to continue to carry out its national security functions,” the White House said in a statement of administration policy.

Kheel reports the Obama administration also opposes NDAA provisions that would extend a ban on the transfer of detainees from a U.S. detention facility in Cuba to other countries that are included in State Department-issued travel alerts and would limit the number of National Security Council staffers to 150.

The House of Representatives passed its fiscal 2017 defense policy bill last month, but the legislation faces a veto threat from the White House because it uses war funds to increase the defense base budget, Patricia Zengerle of Reuters reported Tuesday.

According to Zengerle’s story, the Senate’s NDAA did not adopt the House’s strategy to shift funds from the Pentagon’s overseas contingency operations account.