The FBI has partnered with the General Services Administration‘s 18F office to build an online platform designed to provide information about nationwide crime trends, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Crime Data Explorer is designed to also help users view statistics by type of crime and state as well as download raw data sets and access an application programming interface for reported criminal activities throughout the country.

Fedscoop quoted Larry Bafundo, product manager at 18F, as saying the FBI aims to increase public access to crime data through the platform.

He added the bureau plans to further develop Crime Data Explorer based on feedback from users and stakeholders.

Robert Foster, the departing chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, has said one of his office’s cybersecurity initiatives over the last two years is the transition from the Defense Department’s Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process to the risk management framework, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.

The adoption of the risk management framework seeks to help DoN ensure its cybersecurity posture through continuous monitoring of data systems.

Foster told the station’s Ask the CIO the complete migration to the new framework calls for DoN to modify contracts, carry out employee training and upgrade current systems to identify those that need new accreditations.

He said cyber initiatives helped advance the department’s privacy programs.

“You have the defense-in-depth side, which is more of a fence and moat scenario, but then you still got the user impact and I think reducing the Social Security numbers will help us with a privacy breach and in many cases, a privacy breach is a key indicator of a cyber breach,” he added.

Foster also discussed the installation of broadband services on naval bases as part of the strategic spectrum effort, the potential role of the NGEN managed services contract recompete effort in the move to the Joint Regional Security Stacks version 2.0 and the department’s cloud migration efforts.

He announced early this month that he will step down from his post to join the National Credit Union Administration as deputy CIO, effective Aug. 21.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has introduced a research program to explore methods to increase the predictability and safety of learning-enabled autonomous platforms such as unmanned aerial and driverless vehicles.

DARPA said Wednesday researchers will work to create tools that reinforce trustworthiness at the design stage and address functional and safety goals explicitly stated under the Assured Autonomy program.

“Tremendous advances have been made in the last decade in constructing autonomy systems, as evidenced by the proliferation of a variety of unmanned vehicles,” said Sandeep Neema, a DARPA program manager.

“In spite of these advances, deployment and broader adoption of such systems in safety-critical [Defense Department] applications remains challenging and controversial,” Neema added.

DARPA aims to integrate the program’s resulting technology into learning-enabled, cyber-physical systems design tool chains for use in the defense and commercial sectors.

A report from the General Services Administration‘s Digital Analytics Program has shown that mobile devices accounted for 43 percent of all traffic on U.S. government websites in December 2016.

Freddie Blicher, a DAP analyst, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that mobile devices’ share of traffic increased from 36 percent in December 2015 and is projected to continuously grow during 2017.

“What we discovered is that even though desktop users are switching to total mobile, when we dive deeper into the data we actually see tablet users declining and smartphone capturing the majority of the shift in users from desktop,” Blicher noted.

DAP also estimated that smartphone usage currently accounts for 36 percent of total government website visits and predicted the utilization of such device will exceed 37 percent this year.

Blicher said the findings suggest that government website developers must create mobile-friendly web tools that will address the needs of smartphone users.

The DAP report includes data from more than 4,500 executive branch websites.

DAP is a hosted shared service managed by GSA’s Technology Transformation Service that provides web analytics to federal agencies.