Derek Tournear, acting director of the Space Development Agency, unveiled the agency’s plans to establish seven “layers” of space defense during an Air Force Association event in Maryland, National Defense Magazine reported Thursday.

Tournear told reporters that the layers will include up to 400 small spacecraft and that each layer will encompass command-and-control, communications, sensing, battle management and navigation functionalities. The Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office’s systems will handle other missions involving technologies such as remote sensing, global communications and GPS.

“We are orchestrating the fielding and development of the next-generation national defense space architecture,” said Tournear. “So we’re working with a lot of other folks, especially the Air Force to make sure that all of those components necessary for the architecture get built out.”

SDA plans to launch demonstration satellites in fiscal 2021 and achieve an initial operating capability for its fleet of small spacecraft by 2024.

Anne Neuberger, leader of the National Security Agency’s new cybersecurity directorate, said her plans for the organization’s first 60 days would rely on joint, collaborative approach, Fifth Domain reported Thursday.

Her diverse team will consist of professionals from across different areas such as emerging technologies, threat intelligence and nuclear command and control, she said Wednesday at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s summit.

Neuberger said she intends to organize her team as a unified community with diversity as a strength. The directorate will work with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to operationalize threat intelligence for network defense.

NSA’s lessons learned over the past years will also inform the new directorate’s security standards and efforts to educate industry, she noted.

The U.S. Air Force will adopt a geostationary weather-tracking satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration powered down in early 2018 after 10 years on orbit, SpaceNews reported Thursday.

John Leslie, a NOAA spokesman, told SpaceNews in an email the agency will hand over its decommissioned GOES-13 satellite as part of a space-based environmental monitoring agreement signed with the service branch.

The satellite, which previously operated in the GOES-East position, will support the Air Force’s weather forecasting activities from a new geostationary location, according to the report.

NOAA currently operates GOES-16 and -17 as GOES-East and GOES-West satellites, respectively. The deactivated GOES-14 serves as a backup satellite of the agency.

Grant Schneider, federal chief information security officer, spoke about federal agencies’ improvement in cybersecurity and information technology modernization at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency summit Thursday, Federal Times reported.

He mentioned how the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act and the Federal Information Security Management Act have helped the government track and score agencies’ progress when it comes to IT modernization and cyber initiatives.

“We’ve come a long way with agencies, four or five years ago, where we were just starting to get leadership’s attention on this thing called ‘cyber,'” he said at the conference. “We’ve got leadership’s attention and now we’re all able, between CISA and [the Office of Management and Budget] and [the National Institute of Standards and Technology] … to focus on the implementation and adoption of the policies and directives we’ve put out there.”

“We’re able to hold agencies accountable, or at least highlight where they’re at on metrics, and really get a lot of the basic stuff done and done well,” he added.

Anil Cheriyan, director of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service, said TTS will reorganize its four offices into two “pillars” as part of its efforts to be more “client-focused,” FedScoop reported Thursday.

The 18F digital services agency, Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Centers of Excellence will form the “clients and markets” pillar to be led by assistant commissioner Harry Lee.

Dominic Sale will also serve as assistant commissioner to oversee the “solutions and products” group, which will be composed of the Office of Products and Programs and some digital platforms under 18F such as cloud.gov and login.gov.

Cheriyan said the restructuring effort aims to develop a more “collaborative environment” across TTS offices and programs.