Margie Graves, federal deputy chief information officer, said a civilian counterpart to the Department of Defense’s proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification would require a different structure to meet civilian agencies’ wide range of missions, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

“We, as a civilian community, cannot adopt DOD rubrics writ-large,” Graves said in response to a question at the Professional Services Council’s annual Vision conference. “But, ultimately, we have to do what’s right for the mission spaces, and not all of those are uniform. Most of them in the civilian space don’t comport with DOD.”

In September, the Pentagon issued a draft version of the framework, which sets cyber standards and practices meant to help the defense industrial base reduce exfiltration of controlled unclassified information.

U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center has conducted initial survey flights of a new unmanned aircraft system designed to gather intelligence imagery. The center is working to adopt a safer way to capture mapping images for the Army’s missions worldwide, and considers the senseFly eBee X to address this need, the service branch said Tuesday.

“Our goal is to utilize it to make us more efficient in how we collect all types of engineering data, specifically surveying data and topographic data,” said A. Wade Doss, chief of the civil structures division of the Huntsville, Ala.-based center’s engineering directorate.

Doss said the UAS would take part in simple missions and help the Army generate 3D models. The aircraft cloud also deploy in hazardous areas to gather needed data and avoid the need of deploying human personnel in these places.

“A lot can be done in energy, site development, construction, change detection and ranges,” said Ryan Strange, research physical scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Aviation and Remote Systems Program and the center’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Site Development Branch.

Strange’s team is now pursuing efforts to ensure accuracy of processes before the system’s use in other projects.

The Professional Services Council released a study stating that there has been a 17 percent decline in traditional shared services in the federal government last fiscal year, FCW reported Tuesday. PSC implemented the input of federal acquisition and technology officials as part of the study.

According to the PSC 2019 Vision Forecast, federal spending on cloud capabilities increased by 58 percent mostly due to the Trump administration’s “Cloud Smart” and “Cloud First” initiatives.

Steve Vetter, a program lead for the PSC report, said that efforts to meet the President’s Management Agenda’s goals have resulted in an increase in using provisioned information technology or “as-a-service” capabilities.

“Cloud is a form of shared services, but provisioned IT goes beyond shared services,” he noted.

David Berteau, president and CEO of PSC and 2019 Wash100 Award winner, added that government IT spending may be impacted by unstable global and federal economic environments resulting from appropriation lapses, continuing resolutions and a partial shutdown.