Brigade General Vladimer Chachibaia was appointed on the position of the Rector of National Defence Academy. Brigade General Chachibaia is being sent in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on the position of senior military adviser from 12th October of 2015 to 16th of October 2016. Today Chief of General Staff, Major-General Vakhtang Kapanadze also introduced the acting Rector of NDA, Colonel Malkhaz Makaradze. Malkhaz Makaradze has multilateral Military and Civil education. In 2015, he finished Commander Staff College of US Marine Corps University. Nowadays, he is the Doctor of Social Sciences faculty in Georgian Technical University. In different times he held high military positions. In 2014-2015 he was on a position of Deputy Commander of General Staff trainings and Military Education.