The U.S. Air Force conducted a five-day training of 38th Rescue Squadron members to prepare them for potential urgent response operations in support of Boeing and SpaceX missions under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

The 38th RSQ Blue Team learned how to land in the ocean with water gear and familiarize themselves with different boat packages that will carry materials necessary to perform emergency response work if astronauts need to be extracted from space capsules in the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean, USAF said Monday.

Crewed space vehicles are designed to separate from rockets if a malfunction transpired after liftoff, and the goal of the squadron is to act as the on-site rescue team for the astronauts in the event of a launch failure.

USAF noted that routinary exercises will help increase the crew men's proficiency level and consequently give security to spacecraft crew members as they perform off-the-coast launches.

SpaceX aims to launch the company's third crewed operational flight of its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on Oct. 31st.

Boeing postponed a second uncrewed flight demonstration that was scheduled for Aug. 3rd in order to fix issues with its Starliner spacecraft's propulsion system.

The Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) has released a final rule to facilitate the sharing of information on supply chain risks and exercise its authority to recommend issuance of orders requiring the removal of IT products and services from executive agency information systems or exclusion of covered articles from future procurements.

FASC in an interagency council that was formed in compliance with the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 to help address vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services supply chains, according to a Federal Register notice posted Thursday.

The council is chaired by a senior-level Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official and consists of representatives from the General Services Administration, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Defense and Commerce.

DHS, acting through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will serve as the council’s information-sharing agency, which will standardize processes for submitting and distributing supply chain data and facilitate the operations of a supply chain risk management task force.

The rule also outlines processes how federal and nonfederal entities can submit supply chain risk data to the FASC and how the ISA can facilitate information sharing in support of supply chain risk analyses.

The final rule is set to take effect Sept. 27th.

A cross-domain platform developed by Peraton and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been added to a baseline list by a National Security Agency (NSA) office following its completion of the lab based security assessment.

The company said Wednesday the X-domain Agile Rules-Based Information Transfer OrchestratoR is on NSA's National Cross Domain Strategy and Management Office (NCDSMO) Baseline List for Top Secret/SCI and Below Information and Secret and Below Information.

X-ARBITOR is designed to help deploy cross domain data inspection, sanitization and transfer capabilities that are NSA Raise-the-Bar compliant. It is capable of transferring both structured and unstructured data between different domains simultaneously.

Dave Gray, Cross Domain Solutions program manager at Peraton, said X-ARBITOR is meant to support various data types and several deployment scenarios.

Peraton and AFRL are working together to advance cross domain technologies.