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.

NASA has issued a total of $2.3 million in grants to support graduate student research projects across 13 minority institutions and four majority institutions. These projects support national aviation and space efforts such as the Artemis program that aims to revive manned lunar exploration, NASA said Thursday.

The space agency’s Minority University Research and Education Project and Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate provided the funds.

The 17 recipient institutions are:

• Florida International University

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Montclair State University

• New Mexico State University

• Ohio State University

• Pennsylvania State University (two awards)

• San Diego State University Foundation

• University of California, Irvine

• University of California, Riverside

• University of Florida

• University of Hawaii Systems

• University of Houston System

• University of Maryland

• University of Minnesota (two awards)

• University of New Mexico

• University of Texas, Arlington

• University of Washington, Seattle

The Federal Communications Commission has established innovation zones in Salt Lake City and New York City to experiment with newer wireless communication networks that include fifth-generation cellular technology. The National Science Foundation proposed the creation of the testing areas to help increase connectivity through wireless devices and services, FCC said Monday.

“We’re also establishing a process to ensure new innovators can have access to this testing resource while protecting current, licensed users,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.

FCC noted that arties with experimental program licenses can also perform non-related experiments to develop new technology as part of the initiative without causing interference to other services.

Salt Lake City will host an open wireless data-based research effort with multiple input, multiple output platforms while New York City will test an open software-defined mobile wireless system.