Mara Karlin, who worked in the Pentagon during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, has been nominated to become assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans and capabilities, as Defense News reported.

Karlin is currently the acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. If confirmed to the new job, Karlin would be responsible for the next update of the national defense strategy.

She is the seventh high-level Pentagon nominee named in the past two weeks, after Senators expressed frustration that the White House wasn’t moving faster to fill the top DOD jobs.

DOD photo by David Vergun