Opposing views between the U.S. and Israel over Iran’s nuclear deal with six world powers have resurfaced after President Barack Obama said Israel has started to recognize that the 2015 deal “has been a game changer,” Defense News reported Sunday.

Barbara Opall-Rome writes Obama made the remarks during a press conference Thursday at the Pentagon and alluded to a January speech made by Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, on Iran’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

The report said Eizenkot called the U.S.-led nuclear agreement as “significantly changing the vector that Iran has been on.”

Obama’s statement comes after Eizenkot and Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, head of planning for Eizenkot, concluded a one-week visit to the U.S., Opall-Rome reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also issued a statement that calls for opposing countries to collaborate in an effort to address Iran’s regional aggression as well as disable its terror network worldwide, according to the report.

The National Nuclear Security Administration, Energy Department, Argonne National Laboratory and Washington State University will launch a research facility that will help NNSA secure the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

WSU said Thursday the Dynamic Compression Sector installation is located at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source facility — a Chicago-based DOE facility.

DCS is designed to help researchers observe the behavior of materials amid extreme conditions through tunable, high-energy X-ray pulses, WSU added.

The university said researchers at DCS will work to address local energy and national security challenges, study the structure of planetary interiors and create lightweight materials for industrial, aerospace and automotive applications.

DCS’ experimental resources will also support the Defense Department‘s national security research, WSU added.

NNSA funds the facility while WSU and APS have partnered to manage DCS.

The Obama administration has published a declassified form of the government’s drone strike policy overseas in response to federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2015, Reuters reported Saturday.

Lesley Wroughton writes the Presidential Policy Guidance sets the rules for the execution and capture of terrorist suspects abroad and is part of President Barack Obama’s vow in 2013 for transparent counterterrorism operations.

Jameel Jaffer, ACLU’s deputy legal director, told Reuters the redacted PPG document provides fresh insights into how terrorists are targeted with lethal force or captured.

“Its release now will inform an ongoing debate about the lawfulness and wisdom of the government’s counter-terrorism policies,” Jaffer added, according to the report.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. David Hahn, formerly special assistant to the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, has been named chief of naval research at the service branch, the Defense Department announced Friday.

He will succeed Rear Adm. Mathias Winter, who has been appointed deputy director of the Joint Strike Fighter Program at the office of defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.

Hahn will oversee the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory that comprises the naval center for space technology and four directorates that perform scientific research.

He has held several acquisition roles within the Navy since 2007, such as major program manager for the Submarine Combat and Weapon Control Systems program and joint test and evaluation test director and program manager for advanced submarine research and development.

The Defense Superior Service Medal recipient also served as commander of the USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) submarine for four years.

Winter is a 31-year Navy veteran who started his military career as a naval flight officer.

He previously served as manager of the Precision Strike Weapons program, assistant deputy program manager for the Joint Standoff Weapon System and program executive officer for Tactical Aircraft programs.

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Brett Heimbigner, director of intelligence at the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, has been assigned to serve as deputy commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson announced Heimbigner’s appointment in a Defense Department release published Friday.

JFCC ISR is part of the U.S. Strategic Command and works to plan, execute and assess global ISR operations of the U.S. military.

Heimbigner previously served as wing intelligence officer aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, director of intelligence for the Navy Special Warfare Development Group and deputy J2 at the Joint Special Operations Command.

He also worked as operations officer at the European Command’s Joint Analysis Center and commander of the U.S. Central Command’s Joint Intelligence Command Central.

His personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and two Presidential Unit Citations.