The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago will host an exhibit of various technology platforms developed or funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from May 5 through Sept. 5.

Titled “DARPA: Redefining Possible,” the event will feature interactive displays and activities for students and adults, DARPA said Thursday.

“We hope the exhibit will serve as a reminder that some of the most exciting work going on today in fields as diverse as chemistry, engineering, cyber defense and synthetic biology are happening with federal support, in furtherance of pressing national priorities,” noted Steve Walker, deputy director of DARPA.

DARPA plans to display a large-scale model of the Sea Hunter autonomous ship, the Atlas humanoid robot, a robotic dog known as Spot, small implantable electrode arrays and an “air legs” exoskeleton in the Museum of Science and Industry for the four-month agency exhibit.

The agency will also present an immersive program about DARPA-backed technologies such as x-planes, unmanned aerial vehicles, chip-scale atomic clocks, tobacco plant-based Ebola vaccine and manmade lightning.

The U.S. Army is scheduled to test in May a prototype that works to counter unmanned aerial systems through its Network Integration Evaluation process, Defense News reported Thursday.

Jen Judson writes the service branch will conduct the NIE on the C-UAS Mobile Integrated Capability prototype at Fort Bliss in Texas for a period of two weeks to evaluate how to integrate the system with its tactical network.

The C-UAS CMIC prototype is linked to the military branch’s command-and-control systems and consists of the Northrop Grumman-built Venom mast, Lightweight Laser Designator Rangefinder and the Q-50 Counterfire Radar System.

Northrop’s Venom Mast works to transmit Q-50 radar-derived data to the LLDR to help counter threats posed by UAS and other aerial vehicles.

“We can put a capability in soldiers’ hands using existing equipment that they have, so really what we are doing is we are taking existing programs of record and repurposing it to give the ability to counter those UAS,” Michael Cochran, Fires liaison officer at Fort Bliss, told Defense News.

The Library of Congress will take down the online legislative information database THOMAS.gov on July 5 and transition the system to the Congress.gov domain.

The Library said Thursday THOMAS.gov’s two-decade old infrastructure can no longer support updates that would meet the needs of users.

The website was launched in 1995 and named after Thomas Jefferson through a bipartisan initiative.

Congress.gov went live in beta form in 2012 and is designed to provide data sets on bill status, summary and text; the Congressional Record; Congressional Record Index and committee reports; executive actions and archives that date back to 1973, the Library said.

The new website also contains Senate and House committee and member profiles, videos of legislative process and committee hearings, glossary of terms and direct links from bills to Congressional Budget Office cost estimates.

Congress.gov is a joint project between the Library, the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Government Publishing Office.

Office of the Director of National Intelligence leaders are continuing their efforts to issue a security executive agent directive that will set policies and guidelines on social media usage, Federal News Radio reported Thursday.

Nicole Ogrysko writes that the directive — still under review at the Office of Management and Budget — looks to detail ODNI staff on the proposed policies in an effort to use publicly-available information for use.

Bill Evanina, director of ODNI’s National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance-hosted event in Chantilly, Virginia Thursday social media is an area to be monitored as agencies continue to evaluate its employees with access to information, Ogrysko reported.

Kemp Ensor, director of security at the National Security Agency, called social media a “void” that NSA wants to patch through its own insider threat programs, according to the report.