National Intelligence Director James Clapper has signed a new policy that allows federal background investigators to use publicly-accessible social media information as an investigative tool in the security clearance process.

ODNI said Friday the Security Executive Agent Directive Five also restricts the federal government from pursuing the private social media information of clearance holders and applicants unless it is a criminal reporting requirement or considered a national security concern.

The directive also prohibits investigators from requesting or requiring individuals’ social media passwords and taking any action that would reveal non-publicly available social media information, ODNI added.

Investigators are not required to incorporate public social media information in the vetting process but will be permitted to do so if determined appropriate by an agency head.

The Pentagon has authorized Israel to make modifications and repairs to the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet, Wired reported Tuesday.

Eric Adams writes Israel is set to receive the Joint Strike Fighter plane in December and becomes the first U.S. ally to obtain approval to customize the F-35 aircraft.

Israel will install its own command-and-control software onto the jet and also plans to incorporate a domestic missile system, Wired reports.

Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office are discussing the customization effort with Israel, the report said.

The Pentagon expects to issue a final decision later this year after it validates that Israel’s systems fit with the F-35’s native systems and that the country’s Nevatim air base maintenance facility maintains security, Adams reports.

Rear Adm. Brian Antonio, program executive officer for the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships, has been assigned to the role of PEO for aircraft carriers.

The appointment by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson was announced Thursday.

Antonio has held his current role since September 2013.

His tour as an engineering duty officer comprised field, fleet command and headquarters assignments after he passed the qualification as a ship superintendent for USS Nassau and USS Saipan overhauls at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

He was a PMS 378 program manager for future aircraft carriers between 2007 and 2011 and received his qualification for surface warfare onboard USS Peterson.

Antonio served as a fleet maintenance officer on the staff of the U.S. Pacific Fleet while he held the role as executive assistant and naval aide to the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition.

Rear Adms. Michael Manazir and DeWolfe Miller will take up new roles within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Miller will serve as director of the air warfare division and succeed Manazir, who has been appointed as deputy chief of naval operations for warfare systems at the office of the CNO, the Defense Department said Thursday.

Manazir, the current director of the air warfare division at the office of the CNO, handles the development, programming and budgeting of the warfighting requirements, resources and manpower of the U.S. naval aviation branch.

He has commanded a number of fighting squadrons including the Tomcatters of Fighter Squadron 31, USS Sacramento, USS Nimitz and Carrier Strike Group 8.

The newly appointed deputy CNO for warfare systems has also received various personal and campaign awards such as the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and the Strike/Flight Air Medal.

Miller, who currently works as the deputy director at the office of the CNO for warfare systems, has also served in several command and operational tours.

Rear Adm. John Neagley, formerly deputy commander of fleet readiness for Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, has succeeded Rear Adm. Brian Antonio as program executive officer for the U.S. Navy‘s Littoral Combat Ship Program.

Neagley will oversee the service branch’s efforts to sustain the LCS fleet’s surface warfare, mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare mission systems, the Navy said Wednesday.

The 34-year military veteran was selected for the LCS PEO role in March and formally assumed the post during a change-of-office ceremony held Tuesday at the Washington Navy Yard.

He previously worked served as LCS program manager and as executive assistant to Naval Sea Systems Command.

He has also led the deployment of explosive ordnance disposal and counter-improvised explosive device systems to Iraq and Afghanistan as the Navy’s EOD/CREW program manager.

His sea assignments include deployment on USS Whipple, USS Coral Sea, USS John Paul Jones, USS Antietam and USS Fitzgerald where he supported various missions such as Operations Desert Fox, Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.