The National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced new resources intended to help organizations protect their mobile devices and computer systems from malware threats.

NIST said Wednesday the draft Mobile Threat Catalogue and the draft Assessing Threats to Mobile Devices and Infrastructure seek to respond to the public and private organizations’ request for information on threats and how to mitigate the attacks.

The draft catalogue details the various mobile threats in authentication, supply chains, physical access, payment, ecosystem and network protocols, technologies and infrastructure.

MTC also raises security concerns over the Global Positioning System, WiFi, Bluetooth and mobile payments; and advocates the implementation of mobile security tools and best practices to help secure an organization’s information technology system.

“Often IT shops or security managers will address or secure the apps on a phone and protect the operating system from potential threats,” said Joshua Franklin, an NIST cybersecurity engineer.

“But there is a much wider range of threats that need to be addressed… Enterprise security teams often don’t focus on the cellular radios in smartphones, which, if not secured, can allow someone to eavesdrop on your CEO’s calls.”

The second draft provides background information on mobile device threats and recommends that security perspectives be expanded to include threats that occur through cellular networks, cloud infrastructure and application stores.

NIST collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate to develop the resources with data obtained from responses to a 2015 request for information on mobile threats and defenses and interviews with security professionals.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Cancer Institute have extended their partnership through 2021 in an effort to expand the use of big data techniques and machine learning algorithms, which were originally developed for space exploration, in cancer research.

The space agency said Thursday JPL and NCI will work to expand their data science efforts to other NCI-sponsored cancer research programs under the renewed partnership.

Those NCI-funded programs include the Early Detection Research Network, Informatics Technology for Cancer Research initiative and the Consortium for Molecular and Cellular Characterization of Screen-Detected Lesions.

EDRN is a consortium of biomedical scientists who share information on cancer biomarkers and other genetic signatures related to the disease.

NASA noted that JPL and NCI-backed EDRN have collaborated to create a single network designed to collect cancer research data through the establishment of a JPL-based informatics center.

Dan Crichton, head of JPL’s center for data science and technology, helped form the informatics center that works to support EDRN’s big data initiatives.

The space agency said the JPL-EDRN team also discovered six cancer biomarkers and nine biomarkers that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in cancer research efforts and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments laboratories.

The U.S. Army plans to award a contract by the end of September or in the first quarter of 2017 to support the service branch’s pilot program that aims to migrate applications from 11 data centers into the cloud, C4ISR & Networks reported Wednesday.

Mark Pomerleau writes Col. Rodney Swann, enterprise architecture chief at the Army Architecture Integration Center, said at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association event that work will occur in Redstone Arsenal to serve as a “key component” of the Army’s cloud strategy.

“Once we get the Redstone kicked off and get lessons learned from that, that’s going to inform a lot of how we go forward in cloud computing,” Swann added.

Swann also told C4ISRNET that the Army has identified 25 applications for migration and the service branch aims to reach operational capability in 2017.

The Army announced in July it plans to launch the three-year pilot program to implement a commercially-operated, on-premises cloud platform and consolidate 11 data centers once a vendor has been selected.

Dave Shive, acting commissioner of the General Services Administration‘s technology transformation service, has said GSA’s 18F digital services organization plans to become cost recoverable by 2019, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Frank Konkel writes Shive told a MeriTalk event audience that 18F is required to be cost recoverable and the organization is faced with a challenge to measure its value beyond revenue.

“We are obligated to be cost recoverable, and we’ll strive to do that, but being cost recoverable is not the only value proposition we’re marching against,” Shive said

Shive noted 18F works to help government agencies avoid costs through faster technology acquisitions and share knowledge with civilian agencies as part of its mission, Konkel reported.

A report from the Government Accountability Office projected that 18F could lose approximately $15 million in fiscal year 2016, Nextgov stated.