The U.S. Army has unveiled a data strategy that seeks to equip soldiers with modern technology platforms designed to help them manage and secure communications against cybersecurity threats.

The service branch said Monday it developed the Network Path Forward concept as part of efforts to train warfighters on how to communicate, maneuver and engage targets acrossair, land, sea, space and cyber domains.

The strategy calls for the development of an agile and mobile communications system that would aid the military branch in multi-domain battle.

Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, will provide more information about the Network Path Forward plan at the Association of the U.S. Army symposium on Tuesday.

The Army also seeks to examine the potential of multiple products and services from industry to address network requirements at the strategic and tactical command levels.

The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has launched a new project to repurpose, modify or integrate existing commercial and government analytic tools into border security platforms.

DHS said Friday it aims to produce automated software to increase the amount of available data for border situational awareness missions through the Adaptive Sensor Analytics Project.

The department intends for the automated software to operate 24/7 and filter large volumes of satellite imagery data to help border patrol agents identify potential criminal activity.

“By developing these capabilities… we will be ready to fully exploit the robust commercial satellite constellations when it is realized in the coming years,” said Jon McEntee, acting director of the S&T borders and maritime security division within the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) looks to evaluate a proposed information technology modernization working capital fund through the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard used to evaluate the performance of government IT systems, MeriTalk reported Friday.

The planned central IT modernization fund is part of the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which has been included in the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.

Hurd said he hopes Congress will pass the fiscal 2018 NDAA before the year ends with no changes to the language of MGT Act, the report noted.

MGT Act would authorize agencies to obtain $250 million in IT modernization funds from a central working capital fund, then repay the money using savings achieved through upgraded systems.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tested an electro-optical and infrared sensor onboard a modified DC-3 aircraft to demonstrate its capacity to collect real-time video through the clouds.

DARPA said Thursday it aims to produce a cloud-penetrating extremely high frequency sensor that can be integrated with multiple aerial platforms as part of the Video Synthetic Aperture Radar program.

“The recent flight tests of the ViSAR sensor marked a major program milestone toward our goal, proving that we can take uninterrupted live video of targets on the ground even when flying through or above clouds,” said Bruce Wallace, program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office.

“The EO/IR sensors on board the test aircraft went blank whenever clouds obscured the view, but the synthetic aperture radar tracked ground objects continuously throughout the flight.”

The next phase of the ViSAR program will look to merge the radar into an aircraft equipped with a complete battle management system and real-time target engagement capacity.

Brian Burns, acting chief information officer of the U.S. Coast Guard, has said the service branch is on track to meet the Defense Department’s March 2018 deadline to transition to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, Federal News Radio reported Friday.

Rear Adm. Kevin Lunday, commander of the Coast Guard’s Cyber Command, said the Windows 10 migration provides the service a common secure baseline to defend its information technology networks against hostile threats.

Lunday noted that the military branch will transition to the implementation of the virtual desktop interface after it completes the Windows 10 migration phase.

“That will allow us to provide more robust security in terms of having virtualization and also the capability of having remote access,” Lunday said of VDI.

Burns told the station’s Ask the CIO about the Coast Guard’s intent to migrate to the cloud and the need to meet the requirements of DoD and the Department of Homeland Security to facilitate cloud adoption.

He said those requirements include the use of DoD’s information network, migration to the Pentagon’s Joint Information Environment and compliance with DHS’ data center consolidation initiative.

Burns said the service has begun to consolidate its data centers for its aviation and surface force logistics centers and has partnered with DHS to “provide a department-level financial management services capability.”

“That leads us into the next steps of going to the cloud,” he added.