An inspector general report evaluated the Office of Personnel Management’s security program and practices in compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act and offered 47 recommendations to OPM, Nextgov reported Thursday.

Recommendations include assessment of skills gap, testing for data breaches, improvement in security training and recruitment of more information security personnel.

The report also found that OPM faces the risk of not being able to restore information technology systems in the event of another disaster, does not have a list of contractors that have access to the agency’s network and does not require personnel designated to privacy or “significant” security positions to undergo role-based training.

The IG report classified its audit findings and security recommendations for OPM into eight sections: risk management; configuration management; identity, credential and access management; data protection and privacy; security training; information security continuous monitoring; incident response; and contingency planning.

The Government Accountability Office released a report on Tuesday recommending the Federal Aviation Administration to improve its cost guidance for unmanned aerial system operations. GAO said that FAA should partner with Congress and the Trump administration to establish fee procedures to ensure that drone-related cost data remains accurate and complete.

The watchdog noted that most FAA offices are responsible for both manned and unmanned flight operations, therefore complicating cost-tracking for UAS activities. FAA’s UAS costs are not covered by registration fees the agency has been collecting since 2015, according to GAO.

“Furthermore, FAA’s future costs to conduct oversight and provide air navigation services are largely unknown due to the changing nature of the industry and its early stage of development,” the agency said. “Ensuring that information on UAS-related costs is complete and reliable now could put FAA in a better position to identify those costs as they evolve and possibly expand in the future.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology partnered with the Army Research Lab and University of Maryland to conduct an experiment on quantum interference that could support advanced computing.

NIST said Tuesday that researchers were able to establish an “internet-like” network of photons from processors in different UMD buildings. The interaction of photons may help researchers discover advanced ways of transmitting, storing and processing electrons to enable the handling of information through quantum computing.

As part of the experiment, researchers used infrared light and an optical fiber to facilitate the interaction between photons from distant buildings.

Trey Porto, a researcher for NIST and UMD’s Joint Quantum Institute, said future studies may involve photon entanglement which could lead to information transfer capabilities for quantum computers.

The study’s results have been published in a recent Physical Review Letters issue.