The National Security Agency has announced it will undergo a restructuring in a move to bolster the agency’s technological innovation, workforce and core missions of foreign signals intelligence and information assurance.

The NSA in the 21st Century initiative is a two-year process to reshape the agency and  address challenges triggered by asymmetric national security threats, global communications network evolution, an increase in demand for agency services and its changing cyber mission, NSA said Monday.

NSA Director Adm. Michael Rogers said the NSA21 initiative “will enable us to consolidate capabilities and talents to ensure that we’re using all of our resources to maximum effect to accomplish our mission.”

The agency plans to form six new directorates focused on workforce and support activities, business management and acquisition, engagement and policy, operations, capabilities and research areas.

Dustin Volz of Reuters reported NSA will also integrate its foreign intelligence gathering and cyber defense functions into a single organization as part of the restructuring effort.

The initiative came after a White House-formed review board has identified a potential “conflict of interest” between the offensive and defensive missions at NSA, Volz reports.

Following its review, the board also recommended that the agency collaborate with the technology industry to better secure enterprise computer systems, the report said.

John McCain (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, believes the technology industry in Silicon Valley should consider measures that balance encryption and information sharing with the government on cyber threats.

McCain said in a guest piece published Friday on Bloomberg View that Silicon Valley’s stance on privacy through data encryption impacts the government’s efforts against threats to national security.

“Developing technologies that aid terrorists like Islamic State is not only harmful to our security, but it is ultimately an unwise business model,” he wrote.

The senator urged technology leaders to work with government and adopt flexible measures that protect both their business needs and national security.

He also called on the administration to develop a concrete strategy and Congress to pass legislation to address the use of encryption and facilitate lawful access to what he calls “digital criminal evidence.”

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has outlined the Pentagon’s planned investments in fiscal year 2017 as part of efforts to bolster U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps capabilities, DoD News reported Thursday.

Cheryl Pellerin writes the Defense Department’s fiscal 2017 budget proposal calls for new lethality to ships, submarines, aircraft and munitions.

Carter told audiences at Naval Base San Diego in California the Navy will receive a major chunk of the defense budget because of the service’s “centrality” to the department’s strategy, according to the report.

The budget request also proposes modification to the SM-6 missile in order to extend its target range, the purchase of nine Virginia-class attack submarines over the next five years and updates to the USS Spruance Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and USS Princeton Ticonderoga-class cruiser, Pellerin reports.

The Pentagon also plans to invest $600 million in unmanned undersea vehicles over the next five years and buy 13 additional F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighters and 16 F-18 Super Hornets for the Navy and Marine Corps, DoD News reported.

Terri Moon Cronk reports the department also wants to increase funding for the tactical air fleet in order to sustain the Marines’ F-18 fighter jets and spend more on full-spectrum training for the service, according to the report.

Maj. Gen. Robert McMurry, formerly vice commander of the Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center, has been named chief of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Col. Mark Baird, special assistant to the commander of the Air Force Material Command, will succeed McMurry as SMC’s vice chief and will be promoted to brigadier general, the Defense Department said in a release published Friday.

AFRL leads research and development efforts and integration of warfighting platforms for aerial, space and cyberspace forces.

SMC oversees the acquisition, testing, maintenance, sustainment and deployment of military satellite constellations and other space systems for DoD.

Prior to SMC, McMurry spent two years as director of space programs at the office of the assistant secretary for acquisition at the Air Force and one year as director of security assistance mission in Iraq as part of the U.S. Central Command.

Baird previously served as director of SMC’s space superiority systems directorate before he became commander of the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency.

He has held various acquisition roles within the service branch, including procuring contracting officer, program manager and contingency contracting officer.