The White House plans to send to Congress its proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 on Feb. 10, Defense News reported Monday.

The budget request is expected to continue to support the Pentagon’s efforts of implementing the National Defense Strategy. In December, President Donald Trump signed into law the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes $738B in defense funding.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the lower chamber will vote this week on a war powers resolution to restrict President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran.

The resolution “reasserts Congress’s long-established oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further Congressional action is taken, the Administration’s military hostilities with regard to Iran cease within 30 days,” Pelosi wrote in a Sunday letter to House Democrats.

She said the resolution is similar to a measure crafted by Sen. Tim Kaine’s, D-Va., and will be led by Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.

The missive was in response to Trump’s order to launch a U.S. drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a high-ranking Iranian military official.

“For this reason, we are concerned that the Administration took this action without the consultation of Congress and without respect for Congress’s war powers granted to it by the Constitution,” Pelosi added.

The U.S. Army and Virginia Tech jointly conducted a study on network adaptability resulting in strategies that will enable continued operations amid component failures and cyber attacks.

The Army said Friday that Virginia Tech and the Army Research Laboratory developed a computational simulation with limited nodes, which may come from robots or cell phones. The nodes were assigned to tasks of varying priorities, including communication support, surveillance, search-and-rescue and distributed processing.

Terry Moore, an Army researcher, said the study sought to ensure that the Army's networks can "provide the services it needs."  

"A key result of this work is showing that typical measures of performance for network resilience do not apply to mission-oriented or task-service networks," he said. "We mathematically prove that without consideration of the resources or task priority, network connectivity is not a sufficient measure for determining mission success."

The study, titled “Network Adaptations Under Cascading Failures for Mission-Oriented Networks”, was published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Network and Service Management’s September 2019 volume.

NASA plans to pursue three science-related missions in 2020 under the space agency's Launch Services Program.

The three missions will seek to further understand Earth's oceans, the Sun and Mars, the space agency said Friday.

The first of which is SolarOrbiter, a partnership between NASA and the European Space Agency to study the Sun's poles, solar wind and outer atmosphere via an Airbus-made spacecraft. This mission will launch this February.

The second, known as the Mars 2020 mission, is scheduled to launch in July. This effort would deploy a rover to collect rock samples, study geology and seek signs of microbial life on the red planet.

The last of the three, another NASA-ESA partnership, will launch two satellites that would measure the altimetry of Earth's oceans. The Sentinel-6 mission will take place later this year.

“LSP is incredibly excited to execute the 2020 launch manifest,” said Tim Dunn, launch director of LSP.

Dunn added that the program will also advise on crew and resupply missions for the International Space Station this year.