Deltek has released a new report on the presidential transition process, current federal environment and past impacts of administration changes on federal contracting along with analysis of candidates’ agendas, policy positions and potential impact on federal budgets, human capital and programs.

The company said Tuesday its Impact of the Presidential Transition 2016-2017 report shows both presidential candidates have promised to invest on the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Department.

According to the study, the administration transition will also have little effect on information technology budgets or contract spending because of the lack of full budgetary power until more than a year into the next president’s new term.

“Historically, changes in presidential administrations have not significantly impacted IT budgets or contract spending,” said Angie Petty, a senior principal research analyst at Deltek.

“However, policy changes and implementation could begin as early as within six months of inauguration, and probably sooner for those related to central campaign platforms.”

Deltek added that agency leadership changes will have the most impact on federal IT investments but movements such as data center optimization, Better Buying Power program and Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act will be unaffected by the new administration.

Jessica Gaskin, an astrophysicist in the Science Research Office of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center, has been appointed to lead a team of agency researchers who aim to develop a successor platform for the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NASA said Monday Gaskin works with various researchers worldwide to determine the potential design, size, instruments and launch vehicle requirements of the X-ray Surveyor mission.

She was named co-principal investigator on the High Energy Replicated Optics to Explore the Sun project in 2012.

The Marshall X-ray astronomy group includes Chandra Project Scientist Martin Weisskopf, who is also the senior scientist on the X-ray Surveyor mission.

X-ray Surveyor is one of four NASA missions that the National Research Council will consider for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey that will work to aid future astrophysics research investment efforts.

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian made space rocket headed to the International Space Station.

NASA said Wednesday the three Expedition 49 participants will conduct more than 250 science investigations in areas such as biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences, and technology development throughout the course of the four-month mission.

Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft has also carried more than 5,100 pounds of science and research equipment including a variety of cargo deliveries that will be used in the ISS laboratory along with Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft.

Cygnus also includes payloads that will be used to study the effect of lighting on sleep and daily rhythms, evaluate fires in space, discover a new method of neutron measurement and collect health-related data.

The crew members will also receive a Japanese cargo craft shipment of new lithium ion batteries that will replace nickel-hydrogen batteries currently used to store electrical energy as well as SpaceX‘s 10th commercial resupply ship and two Russian Progress deliveries for food, fuel, supplies and research.

NASA noted that Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko will remain in the space station until February while Expedition 49 Commander Anatoli Ivanishin and flight engineers Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi of NASA and Japan’s aerospace exploration agency will return to Earth Oct. 30.