Nominated

The White House yesterday sent the Senate the nominations of officials slated for top jobs in the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the the intelligence community. You've heard the names before, but now the nominations are in the hands of senators who can hold confirmation hearings for the nominees:

* Rand Beers, to be under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

* Wallace Gregson, to be an assistant secretary of defense

* Priscilla Guthrie, to be chief information officer for the director of national intelligence

* Bonnie Jenkins, for the rank of ambassador during her tenure of service as coordinator for threat reduction programs.

* Elizabeth King, to be an assistant secretary of defense

* Raymond Mabus, to be Navy secretary

* Michael Nacht, to be an assistant secretary of defense

* Donald Remy, to be general counsel of the Army

* Robert Work, to be Navy under secretary