Career Progressions

Maj. Gen. Michael E. Langley, USMC, has been assigned as the commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, Germany.

OM Group Inc., Reston, Virginia, has hired Aaron Tilock as vice president of strategic growth.

CERBAIR, Montrouge, France, has named Charles-Hubert Dufour as chief commercial officer.

Billy Bob Brown Jr. has been appointed as assistant director for emergency communications at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Washington, D.C.

Lorenzo Mariani has been appointed executive group director of sales and business development at MBDA, Rome, and managing director of MBDA Italia.

Data Systems Analysts Inc. (DSA), Fairfax, Virginia, has named Alvie Johnson senior vice president of business development.

Scott Gilson joins Infinity Systems Engineering, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to serve as vice president of market development.

Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, USAF, has been assigned as director, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and commander, Joint Forces Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.

Vice Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti, USN, has been assigned as director for strategy, plans and policy, J-5, Joint Staff, and senior member, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Military Staff Committee, Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

Rear Adm Philip W. Yu, USN, has been assigned as U.S. senior defense official/defense attaché, Russia, U.S. European Command.

Rear Adm. Jeffrey S. Scheidt, USN, has been assigned as deputy chief of computer network operations, National Security Agency, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Washington, D.C.

Rear Adm. William P. Pennington, USN, has been assigned as commander, Task Force Seven Zero and commander, Carrier Strike Group Five, Yokosuka, Japan.

Rear Adm. Nicholas M. Homan, USN, has been assigned as director of intelligence, J-2, U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.

Rear Adm. Thomas M. Henderschedt, USN, has been assigned as senior defense official/defense attaché, China.

Rear Adm. John V. Fuller, USN, has been assigned as deputy director for force protection, J-8, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.

Rear Adm. Leonard C. Dollaga, USN, will be assigned as commander, Submarine Group Seven; commander, Task Force Seven Four; and commander, Task Force Five Four, Yokosuka, Japan.

Rear Adm. William E. Chase III, USN, will be assigned as senior military advisor for cyber policy to the undersecretary of defense for policy and deputy principal cyber advisor to the secretary of defense, Washington, D.C.

Rear Adm. Kathleen M. Creighton, USN, will be assigned as director, information warfare integration, N2/N6F, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.C.

Rear Adm. William W. Wheeler, III, USN, has been assigned as chief of staff, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.

Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, USAF, has been assigned as commander, U.S. Northern Command; and commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.

Rear Adm. Peter G. Stamatopoulos, USN, has been assigned as commander, Naval Supply Systems Command; and chief of Supply Corps, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

Vice Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr., USN, has been assigned as commander, U.S. Naval Forces, U.S. Central Command; commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet; and commander, Combined Maritime Forces, Manama, Bahrain.

Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A. Kruse has been nominated for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general, with assignment as the director's advisor for military affairs, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, McLean, Virginia.

Rear Adm. Kevin M. Jones, USN, has been assigned as director, Logistics Directorate, J-4, U.S. Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany.