The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for a professional who will serve in dual roles as chief information officer and deputy director for plans and integration.

The service branch said in a USAJobs notice posted May 9 that the chosen candidate will oversee human resource activities across military, reserve and civilian components and promote readiness among servicemembers through business processes, policies and technology platforms.

The CIO/deputy chief for plans and integration, who will be based in Washington, is a full-time Senior Executive Service position that requires a Top Secret-level security clearance.

Other duties include oversight of at least 160 information systems, portfolio management, development of an HR-focused enterprise architecture, expert guidance on HR capabilities as well as support for the adoption of standard business practices.

Applications for the position will be accepted through May 31, according to the job notice.

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has said Russian aircraft have conducted “extremely aggressive” operations in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea that could potentially jeopardize lives, DoD News reported Monday.

Lisa Ferdinando writes Work referred to reports by U.S. European Command officials that Russian planes made multiple low-altitude maneuvers in April near the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, USS Donald Cook, in the Baltic Sea’s international waters.

Work, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2016, told reporters during his May 12 trip to Poland that such flight manuevers by Russians could potentially result in an accident.

[O]nce an accident occurs, you don’t know what [would happen] afterwards,” he added.

He also noted that the U.S. will continue to operate in any areas approved by the international law, according to the report.

Work held a three-day trip to Romania and Poland to take part in ceremonies for the two sites of the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense systems.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has established a new internal organization that will serve to support geospatial research among national laboratories, commercial businesses and universities as part of an NGA-wide restructuring initiative.

NGA started the new office to advance the agency’s research activities and provide other agencies in the intelligence community access to new technologies and other offerings, Director Robert Cardillo said in a release posted Friday.

The “NGA Research” office will replace the former InnoVision directorate in the current fiscal year and represents a shift from internal research efforts to a strategy that looks at external work for potential application at the agency.

In addition, former Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Director Peter Highnam has joined NGA in a leadership role to help with its establishment of the In-Q-Tel Interface Center, the GEOINT Pathfinder 2 project and a new NGA Outpost Valley in California’s Silicon Valley.

Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson has succeeded Navy Adm. Bill Gortney as head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, DoD News reported Friday.

Robinson told attendees of the change-of-command ceremony at Peterson that partnerships with joint, interagency and multinational organizations support NORAD and Northcom as reflected by the fact that almost 60 representatives from Defense Department and civilian agencies are integrated into the headquarters, according to the story by Jim Garamone.

Robinson was nominated for the leadership posts in March and has becomes the first female lead of a combatant command.

Canada’s Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan said in his remarks that Norad has served as the first line of defense against air attacks for North America since 1958 as the sole binational command, Garamone wrote.

Military leaders from Mexico were also present the ceremony, where Defense Secretary Ash Carter credited Gortney with his leadership in efforts to foster “warmer” relations between that country and the U.S., DoD News said.

U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Daniel Allyn has called for the repeal of legislation that would restore sequestration in fiscal year 2018 as the service branch seeks to address readiness and modernization requirements.

“The programmed BCA levels of funding in the years ahead impede predictable planning and sustained program momentum and represent a clear and present danger threatening the Army’s ability to fulfill our national security strategy,” Allyn said Wednesday at an Institute of Land Warfare breakfast.

The Army also has trouble with keeping to equipment modernization and fielding due to current fiscal constraints, according to Allyn.

“Since 2011, the Army’s modernization program has shrunk by a third and today it stands at $36 billion less than the next closest service. Given these trends and to preserve readiness in the short term, the Army has been forced to selectively modernize equipment to counter our adversaries’ most pressing technological advances and capabilities,” Allyn said.