The Government Accountability Office has identified challenges in accounting, financial management systems and information technology security pose risks to agencies’ compliance with the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, the GAO said Friday

The legislation requires agencies to make federal spending data publicly available through USASpending.gov by May 2017.

Auditors identified vulnerabilities in government-wide financial management systems used for DATA Act reporting.

GAO also found challenges involving agencies’ efforts to report intragovernmental transactions, to reconcile recipient address information,and align required DATA Act files with missing data.

The government watchdog added that the Office of Management and Budget should give agencies additional guidance to address data quality issues.

OMB and the Treasury Department said they do not to expect to mitigate the issues before the DATA Act reporting deadline.

GAO also identified concerns regarding data quality assurance processes, which OMB plans to address by finalizing the assurance process ahead of the deadline.

OMB established the Data Standards Committee in November 2016 to help clarify data element definitions and identify needs for new standards.

The committee is required to publicly reveal the topics and outcomes of its proceedings to promote transparency, but OMB has not kept records of the committee’s meetings, according to GAO.

GAO called on the OMB director to make sure that the Data Standards Committee releases public information on the topics and outcomes of its meetings.

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.