The Treasury Department has completed and released the final data format designed to standardize reporting of federal spending data in compliance with the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014, the Data Coalition reported Monday.

The department posted the DATA Act Information Model Schema v1.0 on its Federal Spending Transparency’s GitHub website Friday after it completed the schema’s initial version and published 57 data elements with the Office of Management and Budget in May 2015.

“From the very beginning, we wanted to mandate a government-wide format to transform federal spending from disconnected documents and siloed systems into standardized, open data,” said Hudson Hollister, executive director of the Data Coalition.

The schema includes information on reporting submission specification, information flow, interface definition document, DAIMS diagrams, XBRL schema files and online data dictionary as well as instructions on how to upload federal spending data files.

Federal agencies should adopt and comply with the schema and data elements by May 2017, according to the Data Coalition.

Chuck Elmore, chief information officer at the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, plans to consolidate the organization’s enterprise network into the military branch’s AFNet infrastructure in the next year or so, Federal News Radio reported Friday.

Jason Miller writes AFOSI has already migrated about 20 percent of its network into AFNet as part a network consolidation effort.

“Once we collapse this network, we basically hand over our local staff, all of the investigators and analysts and folks that are in the field, to the local base for them to now become the maintainer for those folks,” Elmore told the station.

He added AFOSI also seeks to build a single database system for information that the organization collects to facilitate manpower, budgetary and mission planning activities.

His office is also working with other military commands and agencies to identify strategies to meet a January 2017 deadline for a Defense Department-wide implementation of Microsoft Windows 10 operating system, Elmore noted.

The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration has issued a toolkit that offers six steps on how communities can develop a roadmap to develop and expand broadband networks to unserved areas as well as support public computer centers.

NTIA said Thursday the toolkit titled Planning a Community Broadband Roadmap was released as part of the BroadbandUSA program that works to help communities expand their broadband capacity and adopt wireless broadband networks through technical support and publications.

The toolkit details ways on how to set up a team to create a vision, evaluate broadband-related gaps and resources in communities, involve local stakeholders and select technology platforms.

Tips on how to choose an organizational model and develop project plans are also provided in the document.

NTIA said the resource also covers best practices identified by grant recipients under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

Christopher Boyer, global public policy assistant vice president for AT&T ‘s services business, has been appointed chairman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.

NIST said Friday Boyer — an ISPAB member since June 2012 — will succeed Peter Weinberger and serve as board chair until June 10, 2020.

ISPAB advises NIST, the homeland security secretary and director of the Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy matters across government information systems.

Boyer oversees strategic policy positions associated with cybersecurity at AT&T and also serves as the company’s point of contact to the DHS’ National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council, which advises the president on national security and emergency preparedness.

He also participates in organizations such as Communications Sector Coordinating Council; the National Cyber Security Alliance; and the Federal Communications Commission‘s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council.