Lisa Pratt, recently appointed planetary protection officer at NASA, has said her near-term priorities include the Mars 2020 rover mission and InSight Mars lander mission that is set to take off May 5, SpaceNews reported Monday.

Pratt, an astrobiologist and former professor at Indiana University’s department of Earth and atmospheric sciences, said she aims to reassess how NASA manages government and commercial space missions and ensures that such missions comply with planetary protection regulations.

“For me, the main thing that happens with that move is that it gives us an opportunity to really refocus on facilitation of missions,” Pratt said during her Thursday presentation before the Planetary Science Advisory Committee.

“We have to do it in a way that assists missions, and we don’t look like some kind of sheriff’s department that is constantly coming down on the missions,” she added.

She noted that her office has begun to assess several strategic and technical issues with planetary protection implementation and protocols, including commercial sterilization methods and human spaceflight missions to Mars.

President Donald Trump has nominated Charles Verdon, a principal associate director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as deputy administrator for defense programs at the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration.

At LLNL, Verdon leads the federal research facility’s weapons and complex integration directorate that focuses on nuclear weapons programs, the White House said Monday.

His previous roles within the laboratory include principal deputy associate director of the WCI directorate; director of the Secondary Nuclear Design program; and leader of the AX-Division.

He has managed the facility’s effort to maintain technical and scientific leadership for thermonuclear weapon physics design and operation activities.

Verdon received the American Physical Society’s Excellence in Plasma Physics Research Award in 1995 for his research, theoretical and computational work on high-energy density plasmas.

He earned his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from University of Arizona.

The Federal Communications Commission has set April 23 as the effective date of an order that would repeal internet regulations the Obama administration implemented in 2015.

Changes under the Restoring Internet Freedom Order will go into effect in April except for certain amendatory instructions, which are subject to the Office of Management and Budget‘s approval of information collection requirements and will be delayed until further notice, FCC said in a Federal Register document published Thursday.

The order will reclassify broadband internet access service as a “lightly-regulated information service” and bring back the private mobile service classification of mobile broadband internet service.

Under the order, FCC will also direct internet service providers to disclose information about their network management practices, performance and commercial terms of service.

FCC will issue another document in the Federal Register to announce the effective date of the delayed instructions as well as the new rules’ declaratory ruling, report and order, and order.

The Government Accountability Office has called on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop performance measures and goals for the National 911 program in order to assess how the initiative meets its mission in supporting the implementation of the Next Generation 911 system.

GAO said in a report publicly released Friday the roadmap for the NG911 system implementation should be supported with a plan that determines the responsibilities and roles of federal agencies in performing national-level tasks as well as an implementation strategy that states how such tasks would be carried out.

The NG911 system seeks to provide image, audio and video processing capabilities to facilitate response during emergencies.

The congressional watchdog made the recommendations after 18 states reported that they lack transition plans for the NG911 system.

Local and state officials identified challenges to NG911 implementation such as funding issues and governance as well as technological and operational changes, according to the report.

GAO also cited some of the actions initiated by NHTSA, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to address such implementation challenges.

Those include technical assistance, resource development and discussions with stakeholders to address NG-911-related issues.