President Donald Trump has nominated former Washington candidate Joe Kent to be the next director of the National Counter Terrorism Center.

President Donald Trump has nominated Joe Kent to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. The announcement comes three months after Kent lost a bid for a U.S. House seat for a second time to Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Mark Graves/The Oregonian

Kent’s appointment comes at a time when the global landscape of terrorism is shifting from the battlefields of designated terrorist territories to encrypted spaces in the cyber realm and lone-wolf attacks in major cities.