Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Jack Reed, D-RI, have introduced a bill directing the establishment of a Malign Foreign Influence Response Center responsible for preventing adversarial interference and threats ahead of the federal elections.

Klobuchar’s office said Wednesday that the Combatting Foreign Influence Act would mandate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to create the center, and coordinate information sharing and analysis activities across government agencies as well as the intelligence community.

The center will focus on mitigating threats from known adversaries such as Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. In addition, the unit will launch disinformation campaigns and submit an annual report to Congress detailing its activities and impact on privacy matters.

“We know that foreign governments and their agents have executed extensive and sophisticated influence campaigns that are designed to sow division, spread disinformation, and mislead the American people—we need a collaborative, comprehensive approach to protecting our democracy from information warfare,” said Klobuchar.

Congress may opt to re-authorize the center after eight years.

Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a 2019 Wash100 Award winner, said government and industry cyber professionals seeking to encourage more people to participate in efforts to counter digital threats should present such threats in a more realistic way, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

“One of the things we’ve got to do a better job of is [to] stop selling fear,” Krebs said in his keynote speech at CISA Cybersecurity Summit. “Fear sells, but we have far too much to offer to just be looking for the next mark. We’ve got to be more straightforward, more measured, more reasonable in how we talk about [threats].”

He also cited how outreach programs could help agencies and industry address the cyber workforce shortage.

NASA has said it is ahead of schedule towards the completion of Gateway, a space outpost that would support manned lunar explorations under the Artemis effort, Space News reported Tuesday.

Officials from the space agency talked about progress on Gateway’s first two elements during the American Astronautical Society’s Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium that took place Sept. 11 in Huntsville, Ala. Maxar Technologies is working to develop Gateway’s power and propulsion element that is scheduled for launch in 2022.

Dan Hartman, Gateway program manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, said the agency and Maxar are working to integrate NASA hardware into the PPE. The second element, known as the Habitation and Logistics Outpost or HALO, would help astronauts land on the Moon by 2024.

NASA plans to award a contract to Northrop Grumman for HALO’s completion. He company has already begun the module’s construction, according to Hartman.

The Office of Naval Research is working to develop a cloud platform that would address computing challenges that come the increase of data sources. ONR partnered with the U.S. Navy’s small business innovation research program to create Cloud-to-Edge, a cloud computing environment designed to facilitate big data processing for warfighters, the service branch said Tuesday.

Sailors and marines operating on land, air and sea domains would use CTE to develop combat systems, test software and scale simulations. CTE also supports decision making, assessments and training to boost warfighter readiness.

The cloud platform also builds on the Automated Test and Re-Test system to accelerate the delivery of software-based functions. The Navy demonstrated ATRT’s functions with the Aegis Virtual Twin project, an effort to deploy a virtual version of the Aegis weapon system as a digital counterpart.