Nominations

The Senate Armed Services Committee this morning voted to approve the nomination of Robert Work to become the next deputy defense secretary, according to a panel statement.

The committee also approved the nominations of Air Force Gen. Paul Selva to be head of U.S. Transportation Command and Navy Vice Adm. Michael Rogers become the next director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command.

Additionally, the committee approved the nominations of:

* Michael McCord to be Pentagon comptroller;

* Christine Wormuth to be under secretary of defense for policy;

* David Shear to be assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs; and

* Eric Rosenbach to be assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense.

The nominations will now go to the full Senate for consideration.