Congress has used clarification notices to delay the Obama administration’s plan to sell eight new Lockheed Martin-built F-16 aircraft to Pakistan, Dawn reported Tuesday.

Anwar Iqbal writes the Senate also moved to stall the sale of the fighter jets to Pakistan through a legislative “hold” notice sent to the White House.

Lawmakers raised concerns about the purpose of such fighter jets that Pakistan intends to procure from the U.S., Iqbal reports.

“I don’t know how an F-16, with all of its hardware on there for combat, can be used for humanitarian aid,” Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) said at a congressional hearing.

“Those F-16s and the military equipment that we are providing Pakistan are being used against their own people, just like they did against the people over there in Bangladesh,” said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).

Stacey Dixon, former deputy director of the InnoVision organization at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency , has joined the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity as deputy director.

She will be responsible for IARPA’s multi-disciplinary research programs for national intelligence operations in collaboration with the agency’s director, IARPA said Wednesday.

Dixon was most recently responsible for research and development for geospatial intelligence at InnoVision after she served as NGA’s chief of congressional and intergovernmental affairs.

Dixon previously served as program monitor for HPSCI’s national intelligence science and technology activities and later as budget director.

She also led the science division for a satellite program at the CIA between 2003 and 2007.

President Barack Obama has said in his final State of the Union address how al Qaeda and the Islamic State militant group promote terrorism through the Internet, FCW reported Tuesday.

“They use the Internet to poison the minds of individuals inside our country; they undermine our allies,” Obama said.

Aisha Chowdhry writes the president did not mention the issue of cybersecurity in his latest speech compared with his previous addresses, such as his call for the passage of cyber legislation in his 2015 speech.

Obama also cited the efforts of the U.S. government to fight the Islamic State organization.

“For more than a year, America has led a coalition of more than 60 countries to cut off ISIL’s financing, disrupt their plots, stop the flow of terrorist fighters, and stamp out their vicious ideology,” he said in his speech.

Maj. Gen. Mark Westergren — former deputy commander of U.S. Strategic Command‘s Joint Functional Component Command for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — has been appointed deputy chief of the National Security Agency‘s Central Security Service organization.

The Defense Department said Tuesday U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh assigned Westergren to his new role at CSS on Dec. 17.

CSS provides support to the cryptologic community across the U.S. military and is in charge of NSA’s signals intelligence and information assurance policy.

Westergren has served as deputy commander at JFCC-ISR since September 2014.

He has previously held other ISR leadership roles in the Air Force and served in several staff, command, operational and joint assignments in the U.S. and abroad.

Todd Weiler, founder and CEO of consulting firm One Hemisphere Ventures, will be nominated by President Obama to the role of assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs at the Defense Department, the White House announced Monday.

Weiler launched One Hemisphere Ventures in 2008 and worked as vice president at Computer World Services from 2009 to 2010.

He is also a former chief operating officer at Arrowpoint, which he co-owns, and chief information officer and vice president of the Communities in Schools organization.

Before he joined the private sector, Weiler served as the U.S. Army‘s deputy assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs for six years, acted as the White House’s liaison to DoD in 1993 and spent four years as an Army aviation officer.

His military career also includes service in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.