The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is almost done conducting a review on the National Security Agency’s investigation of unauthorized call records, FCW reported Monday.

The review tackles the technical problems that have caused NSA’s Call Detail Records program to collect an excessive amount of data.

Ben Huebner, chief civil liberties and privacy officer under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the review is now going through the final approval processes.

NSA collects communication records in accordance with the 2015 USA Freedom Act for surveillance purposes. Huebner said the program has been collecting too much information due to data inaccuracies.

“[NSA] was only authorized to receive the two-hop information, but if there was an error with that first hop, all of those additional records that came in on that second hop would be overcollection and certainly a compliance incident,” he said at the Cato Institute conference.

Gen. John Raymond, who leads U.S. Space Command, said the country would be able to better protect satellites with the U.S. Space Force’s establishment, Space News reported Monday.

Raymond sat down with Space News to talk about various developments regarding Space Command and the Space Force.

He said his command has formed agreements with various nations regarding the sharing of space data for boosted situational awareness. Chile and Finland serve as the latest additions to the command’s alliance of space awareness.

The U.S. SPACECOM leader also said the command will physically grow to a much larger force upon reaching full operational status after two years.

“We are finalizing our campaign plan for space and we expect that campaign plan will be done in by February,” he noted.

Raymond will concurrently serve as leader of both U.S. SPACECOM and the Fiscal 2020 Space Force if the National Defense Authorization Act is approved as a law.

The bill’s passage would have U.S. SPACECOM absorb Air Force Space Command, an organization also led by Raymond.

The Government Accountability Office has issued a handbook designed to guide agencies throughout the process of evaluating technologies they intend to deploy.

The Technology Assessment Design Handbook, issued by GAO’s Science, Technology Assessment and Analytics Office, covers design tools for “robust and rigorous assessments” that will enable agencies to determine the effects and potential policy implications of new technologies.

According to the handbook, agencies must first determine the scope of their technologies, conduct initial situational analyses and coordinate with other potential stakeholders.

Assessors should then develop an initial design and determine the proper methodologies and approaches to technology assessment in addition to identifying potential data sources. The last phase tasks assessors to implement the review process and make adjustments as needed.

GAO noted that it plans to review and update the handbook in line with ongoing feedback from interested parties.