The Government Accountability Office has recommended that NASA come up a document stating its rationale for how it selected its lunar architecture and lunar programs and develop a cost estimate for the moon landing mission in 2024.

“Without a documented rationale, NASA is ill-positioned to effectively communicate its decisions to stakeholders and facilitate a better understanding of its plans,” GAO said in its report published Thursday.

The congressional watchdog also called on NASA to schedule and define reviews that align requirements across lunar programs.

According to the report, the space agency has identified orbiting Gateway platform, human landing system, Orion crew vehicle and Space Launch System as the three systems for the 2024 moon landing. The Gateway program has three components: habitation, power and propulsion and logistics.

GAO made the recommendations after it found lapses in the agency’s efforts, including the lack of cost estimate for the first mission and failure to define reviews to ensure that requirements are align across initiatives.

Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide information on its deployment of facial recognition technology and how it ensures that citizens retain their civil rights.

The letter to HUD Secretary Ben Carson sought information on public housing and federally assisted properties, including policies implemented to regulate facial recognition technology and research conducted to support its deployment.

The lawmakers also asked Carson to provide a list of federally assisted properties that deploy facial recognition over the past five years by Jan. 24, 2020.

According to the letter, scientific studies have proven that facial recognition “misidentifies many individuals” and exacerbates risk to vulnerable communities when the data is shared with law enforcement entities.

The letter comes after reports that facial recognition has been installed in public housing units in Detroit and New York. The lawmakers noted that such technologies “could be used to enable invasive, unnecessary and harmful government surveillance of their residents.”

The eight signatories are Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Edward Markey, D-Mass.; and Reps. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.

Maj. Gen. Lee Payne, director for combat support at the Defense Health Agency, said the U.S. military’s new electronic health records system works to help DHS manage the quality of care for personnel and protect their data.

He told audience at the Society of Federal Health Professionals’ annual meeting that MHS Genesis  implementation efforts involved computer security, medical device and cloud computing tests, the agency said Tuesday.

A team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture won a multiyear, multibillion dollar contract from the Department of Defense in July 2015 to integrate a commercial EHS technology across the system.

“The bottom line of the national defense strategy is enhancing readiness and increasing lethality,” Payne said.

“We want our system to help us do that, and then enhance our ability to make the health care system operate more effectively. MHS Genesis helps us move in that direction,” he added.

Eight west coast sites have already adopted MHS Genesis, and DHA plans to continue the phased deployment initiative in June. The agency aims to fully complete the process by 2023.

The Department of the Navy has called off competitions for the development of a mission system architecture and a payload adapter under the Marine Air Ground Task Force Unmanned Aircraft System Expeditionary program, Inside Defense reported Thursday.

In a pair of notices posted on the beta SAM website, DON said the department and the U.S. Marine Corps will review the requirements for the two prize challenges.

USMC has envisioned MUX UAS as a multimission platform with the capacity to operate from guided missile destroyers and other “air capable” vessels or ashore locations.

The first competition called for the design of an adapter that would insert mission payload containers into a drone’s airframe and the second competition sought a modular architecture that would accommodate multiple UAS mission system payloads.

Both challenges were originally unveiled in May.