U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Linda Urrutia-Varhall — former assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in the Pentagon — has been assigned to a new role as director of operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The 32-year Air Force veteran is a former director of intelligence of the U.S. Southern Command and senior executive officer to National Intelligence Director James Clapper, NGA said Thursday.

Urrutia-Varhall also acted as Clapper’s senior military assistant during his tenure as defense undersecretary for intelligence.

“I have worked with [Urrutia-Varhall] before and know she brings remarkable skill and experience to this important position,” NGA Director Robert Cardillo said.

“She knows the intelligence community and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations from the flight line to the Pentagon,” he stated.

Her career includes service in command and staff positions in South Korea and Europe.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work have discussed security issues and potential points of military cooperation with Peter Hultqvist and Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, respective defense ministers for Sweden and Montenegro.

Hultqvist visited the Pentagon to sign a statement of intent alongside Carter and Work to build on the defense cooperation between U.S. and Sweden, the Defense Department‘s news service reported Wednesday.

Carter said the statement of intent aims to support stability and unity in the Nordic region, according to DoD Press Secretary Peter Cook.

Work met separately with Hultqvist to discuss defense cooperation, deterrence of Russia’s behavior, counterterrorism efforts against the Islamic State, the Third Offset Strategy and NATO initiatives, Cook added.

Montenegro’s Defense Minister Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic also visited the Pentagon to meet with Work and talk about defense cooperation and security challenges, DoD said in a separate notice.

Work commended Montenegro’s contributions to NATO missions and operations in Afghanistan, Work’s spokeswoman said.

The deputy defense secretary also congratulated Pejanovic-Djurisic on Montenegro’s signature of its accession protocol that awaits ratification by 28 NATO allies, DoD noted.

Todd McCall, formerly the special agent in charge of FBI‘s Memphis division, has received an appointment from FBI Director James Comey to serve as assistant director of the operational technology division.

McCall will assume his new role as assistant director within June, the bureau said Thursday.

McCall started his career in FBI in 1990 as a special agent and has since held a number of leadership positions in the agency.

He was the Quantico FBI Laboratory supervisory special agent, photographic operations and imaging services unit chief and the operational technology division’s digital forensics and analysis section chief.

He was also involved in the investigations of the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 United Airlines Flight 93 crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has unveiled the third and fourth sets of the Defense Department‘s Force of the Future initiative in a move to reform strategies for DoD to manage its civilian and military personnel.

The program’s first link aims to increase the recruitment of professionals and adoption of new ideas across the department while the second link focuses on employee retention through family support programs, DoD said Thursday.

In a memo published Thursday, Carter said he will ask Congress to provide service branches a greater flexibility to adjust policies under the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act in order to help them address future unforeseen challenges and needs.

He proposed to incentivize best-performing military officers, offer an option for an officer to pursue career development opportunities without compromising their career progression at the department and allow the service branches to assign officers in cybersecurity and other specialized fields.

For DoD’s civilian workforce, he seeks to instituting a talent exchange program meant to help expose the department’s civilians to industry best practices.

He also wants the department to consider qualified civilian students for employment opportunities as well as seeks congressional approval to offer paid parental for civilian employees at DoD.

“Winning the competition for good people is a critical part of our military edge,” Carter said.

“This latest set of proposals, targeting both our military officers and our civilian workforce, will help win that competition so we can meet the security challenges of the 21st Century.”