The Federal Aviation Administration has created a roadmap to address a growing use of additive manufacturing processes across the aerospace sector from a regulatory standpoint, Space News reported Friday.

FAA sent a draft version of its Additive Manufacturing Strategic Roadmap to the agency management team for evaluation and the document suggests production, certification, maintenance policies the agency aims to establish over the next seven to eight years.

Michael Gorelik, FAA chief scientific and technical adviser for fatigue and damage tolerance, said at the Additive Aerospace forum held Thursday he believes the rapid adoption of materials and processes with three-dimensional printing technology presents regulatory challenges in the commercial and military aerospace sectors.

The agency also shared the roadmap with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and NASA.

Mitchell Komaroff, principal adviser for cybersecurity strategy, planning and oversight at the Defense Department, has said DoD collaborates with industry partners to help mitigate threats such as ransomware, FedTech reported Thursday.

Komaroff told the audience at the CyberScoop CyberTalks event in Washington, D.C. that DoD works to outline clear cybersecurity requirements in contracts and share threat information with industry to prevent attacks on the department’s supply chain and on the intellectual property of defense companies.

He noted that the WannaCry ransomware attack in May did not affect DoD’s systems but posed a “mission risk” to the department since commercial partners’ networks were disrupted.

Christopher Wlaschin, chief information security officer of the Department of the Health and Human Services, said HHS collaborates with healthcare information sharing organizations such as the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the HITRUST Alliance to notify the healthcare sector about cybersecurity threats.

Wlaschin added that HHS uses its Health Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center to contextualize threat information and make them understandable for doctors, nurses and office managers without advanced information technology knowledge.

HHS also works with information sharing organizations to deliver comprehensible cybersecurity threat information to small doctors’ offices across U.S., Wlaschin noted.

Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary general of NATO, has said she believes cybersecurity attacks could undermine the international alliance’s missions and hamper collective defense initiatives with its allies.

Gottemoeller offered her insights on the importance of cybersecurity efforts at the NATO Information Assurance Symposium that took place in Mons, Belgium, the organization said Thursday.

“We have to be just as effective in the cyber domain as we are in the physical world,” she told event audience.

She also delivered remarks during a workshop about gender gap in the cybersecurity field.

The alliance estimates that women currently account for 10 percent of the global cyber workforce.

NATO’s Communications and Information Agency hosts a cyber symposium annually as part of efforts to generate discussions of emerging cyber trends and threats.

The Defense Department is in talks with heads of cloud service providers on how to streamline cloud security requirements in a rulebook the Defense Information Systems Agency issued in 2015, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.

DoD’s Cloud Security Requirements Guide offers information on security controls that should be adopted by cloud vendors in order to process or host defense data at several security levels.

“We have not made a decision that we will redo the SRG, but I think we are taking into consideration feedback from our industry partners on where we need to adjust,” said Essye Miller, deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity at DoD.

Miller told reporters the DoD CIO’s office conducted two separate meetings with cloud service vendors in the last two months in order to determine how to make security requirements less prescriptive and specific.

“The discussion was really, truly to the point: What are those things that industry can provide for us and where do we need to adjust, not only in terms of requirements, but to shift our language from specifically what we’re looking for in terms of solutions to expected outcomes,” she added.

DoD’s move to simplify cloud security rules came a month after Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan issued a memo that details the agency’s plan to form a new steering group that will work to develop and oversee the implementation of a strategy to advance the adoption of commercial cloud platforms and services.