A consortium of universities has conducted a study on potential injuries that unmanned aircraft systems could cause in case of collision with people on the ground.

The Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence, or ASSURE, identified blunt force trauma, penetration injuries and lacerations as the three dominant injury types that could result from a drone-human collision, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.

ASSURE reviewed methods used to assess these injury types as part of the study.

The group also identified potentially hazardous drone features; studied 300 publications from the automotive industry and consumer battery market; and reviewed toy standards and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s database.

The consortium completed the studies through crash tests, dynamic modeling and analyses related to kinetic energy, energy transfer and crash dynamics, FAA noted.

Officials from NASA, the Defense Department, FAA and other subject matter experts ran a peer review of ASSURE’s findings.

ASSURE started its research in September 2015 and will begin the second phase of the study in June 2017 to explore the risks of drone collisions with aircraft.

The alliance represents 23 research institutions and 100 industry and government partners and includes the University of Alabama-Huntsville; Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Mississippi State University; and the University of Kansas.

President Donald Trump intends to appoint Richard Staropoli, formerly managing director of counter-party risk and chief information security officer at Fortress Investment Group, as chief information officer of the Department of Homeland Security.

The White House said Friday he helped establish Fortress’ corporate due-diligence program that uses traditional and non-traditional investigative and intelligence gathering approaches.

Staropoli previously spent 25 years as a U.S. Secret Service special agent, which included time as an operator and team leader at the agency’s presidential protective division, chief of polygraph operations and a member of its counter assault team.

He received multiple awards from the departments of the Treasury and Homeland Security as well as the New York City Police Department during his government career.

Staropoli served as an independent board member at Wearsafe Labs from 2014 to 2016.

An official with NASA has said the agency plans to push back the initial launch of the Space Launch System from November 2018 to a new target date in 2019 due to development issues with SLS and the Orion spacecraft, Space News reported Thursday.

Jeff Foust writes Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA, said in an April 12 letter to the Government Accountability Office that the space agency would propose a new launch readiness schedule for Exploration Mission-1 by Sept. 30.

Gerstenmaier added that NASA has begun to evaluate the EM-1 launch date in consideration of various activities such as the development of the Trump administration’s budget request for fiscal 2018 and the tornado in February that caused damage to the Michoud assembly facility in Louisiana, the report added.

GAO said in a report published Thursday that NASA should propose a feasible launch schedule for EM-1 amid technical challenges with the Orion crew vehicle, SLS and Exploration Ground Systems.

The congressional watchdog cited several challenges associated with the three programs that “may impact their remaining schedule reserve.”

Those challenges include delays in Orion’s European Service Module, postponement of welding work on the SLS program’s core stage and plans to subject the EGS program to hardware installation and testing, according to the GAO report.

The Federal Communications Commission wants public comments on a plan to put an end to a regulatory framework that treats internet as a public utility and restore internet freedom through the reinstatement of market-based policies.

FCC said Thursday it plans to re-establish the classification of broadband internet access as an information service and scrap the internet conduct standard.

The agency also has proposed to oversee internet service providers’ privacy practices, reassess its enforcement regime to determine whether ex-ante regulatory involvement is needed and reinstate the classification of mobile broadband access as a private mobile service.

The commission also wants to lift the bright-line regulations in the agency’s Title II Order and carry out a cost-benefit analysis of keeping the internet conduct rule and classification of broadband internet as a telecommunications service, among other measures.

Responses to the notice of proposed rulemaking are due July 17, while feedback on submitted comments will be accepted through August 16.

FCC released the notice a week after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai met with executives of tech companies to seek feedback on his plan to overturn certain aspects of “net neutrality” rules.