FBI Director James Comey has informed House Intelligence Committee members that the bureau is looking into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election and any coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign, CNN reported Tuesday.

Stephen Collinson writes Comey told the committee at a Monday hearing that FBI will also investigate if any crimes were committed in the previous U.S. election.

Comey testified at the panel hearing alongside Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, about ongoing investigations into Russia’s involvement in hacking the elections as well as President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims against former President Barack Obama.

Reuters reported Tuesday that Trump took to Twitter in early March to claim that Obama had wiretapped his communications during the campaign.

At the meeting, Comey also warned about Russia’s capacity to interfere with future U.S. elections.

“They may be back in 2018,” he said.

“One of the lessons they may draw from this is that they were successful because they introduced chaos and division and discord and sowed doubt about the nature of this amazing country of ours and our democratic process.”

President Donald Trump intends to nominate David Glawe, assistant commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection agency, as the next undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at the Department of Homeland Security.

Glawe is a more than 24-year law enforcement and national security veteran who previously held various positions at the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the White House said Monday.

He started his career at the Houston Police Department as an officer.

The Senior Executive Service member received the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal for his efforts to support the intelligence community and national security programs.

He earned a bachelor’s of arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa as well as completed the Senior Managers in Government program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

President Trump designated Rear Adm. Robert Hayes, a 29-year veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard and former assistant commandant for intelligence at the military branch, as DHS acting undersecretary for intelligence and analysis.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have urged the Internal Revenue Service to provide information about the outage of a tool used to help students apply for federal financial aid.

Lawmakers asked IRS commissioner John Koskinen in a letter published Thursday to brief the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform and Education and the Workforce on a recent incident that led to the unavailability of IRS’ Data Retrieval Tool on the FAFSA.gov and StudentLoans.gov sites.

The Education Department said March 9 that DRT went offline due to information security concerns.

The House members also asked Koskinen to identify the dates on which IRS learned about the vulnerability; took DRT out of service; and notified FBI, the inspector general and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team of an information security incident related to DRT.

IRS should describe the scope of data and personally identifiable information that may have been compromised as well as the total population of known impacted individuals, the lawmakers said.

They also asked IRS to identify recommendations made to the Education Department on DRT operations in the past year.

Representatives also requested documents related to the determination that the event is a “major incident.”

The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate will award up to $35 million to two academic institutions to help DHS run a center of excellence for cross-border threat screening and supply chain defense.

DHS said Monday the new CoE will research and develop systems to aid the identification of biological threats that could affect the department’s operations at land borders, ports of entry and nodes within the critical infrastructure supply chain.

The department also posted the two funding opportunities on the grants.gov website and noted it will provide the funds through a 10-year cooperative agreement.

DHS will solicit proposals from research teams with expertise in scientific, engineering and math disciplines and that can support the department in efforts to develop new technology.

S&T COEs work with DHS operating components to transition and educate homeland security personnel about  mission-relevant science and technology as well as help address technical and training gaps.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has devised a method to embed a nanoscale damage-sensing probe into a lightweight epoxy and silk-based composite in a push to speed up the development of materials.

NIST said Friday the mechanophore probe was created using a dye called rhodamine spirolactam and works to help reduce the time and materials needed to develop and test new kinds of composites.

Researchers attached mechanophore to the silk fibers of an epoxy-based composite which caused the material to glow when force is applied, NIST added.

The installation of mechanophore also helped reveal damage at the composite’s interface through optical microscopy, the agency noted.

All composites have an interface where components meet and the strength of that interface affects composites’ capacity to resist damage.

NIST researchers plan to study the application of probes in other kinds of composites and use damage sensors to boost the capacity of composites to withstand extreme temperatures.

The study was funded through collaborative research agreements between NIST, the U.S. Air Force‘s office of scientific research and the U.S. Army‘s research office.