Defense Department Chief Information Offier Terry Halvorsen has said the military and DoD agencies all believe they can meet a January 2017 deadline to transition the Pentagon’s entire network to Windows 10, Fedscoop reported Friday.

Halvorsen told reporters the U.S. Navy‘s Next Generation Enterprise Network and the Marine Corps Enterprise Network will move into Windows 10 by January, according to the story by Billy Mitchell.

DoD Deputy Secretary Bob Work issued a directive in February for the military to migrate to Microsoft Windows 10 within the next 12 months.

Halvorsen added that some programs could be exempted from the deadline under a waiver, FedScoop reports.

He plans to release guidance to Pentagon employees for the application of Windows 10 on their personal computer, Mitchell reports.

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has visited Boeing‘s final assembly facilities in Washington state that currently handle the production of both commercial and military marine patrol aircraft, DoD News reported Monday.

Cheryl Pellerin writes that Work also inspected the development of the P8-A Poseidon, which features anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, maritime patrol, ISR and other functions.

The report said the P8-A works to support the Defense Department‘s third offset strategy as it is based on an open architecture and can interoperate manned and unmanned systems.

Work has previously noted that the manned P8-A’s potential operations with a Northrop Grumman-built MQ-4C Triton drone supports efforts to aid human-machine team-ups during missions, Pellerin reports.

The P8-A will eventually replace the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built P-3 Orion aircraft, the report added.

The Federal Communications Commission plans to develop new regulatory frameworks for business data services and real-time text messaging services for citizens with disabilities at its meeting in April.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Friday he has circulated a draft Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to his fellow commissioners in a move to replace old BDS rules.

“I’ve circulated a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to replace our rules requiring [teletypewriter] support with rules defining the obligations of these entities to support real-time text over IP-based wireless services,” Wheeler said.

Wheeler describes RTT as a better alternative to TTY technology as the technology works to transmit text to the recipient as it is being composed.

“For the past 50 years, people who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech disabled and deaf-blind have been using TTYs to communicate by text over the phone,” he said.

“But TTY technology was developed for use on the legacy public switched telephone network,” added Wheeler.

The notice is also meant to solicit ideas from industry on how to determine the presence of competition in the BDS market across specific geographies.

The Energy Department‘s national laboratories have invested a combined $542 million in laboratory-directed research and development programs during fiscal 2015, which accounted for 4.2 percent of their budgets for that year, according to a Government Accountability Office report.

A DOE policy allows its federally funded research facilities to allocate up to six percent of their total annual operating and capital funds to LDRD initiatives, GAO said Friday.

The agency said contractors run national laboratories to perform studies in the national nuclear security, environmental, scientific and energy areas for DOE and other federal agencies.

GAO found during an audit that DOE’s funding limit for LDRD programs is higher than the funding caps the Defense Department has set for two similar programs at DoD.

DoD can invest up to 3 percent of its basic research budget in R&D programs authorized under the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act‘s Section 219 and up to 2.5 percent of that money in In-House Laboratory Independent Research initiatives, the report states.

Marshall Sprung, the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s co-chief of the enforcement division asset management unit, will leave the agency in April.

He joined SEC in 2003 and has since led investigations of investment advisers for numerous misconduct incidents that involved valuation, disclosure, conflicts of interest, fund governance and the advisory contract approval process, SEC said Monday.

Andrew Ceresney, director of the SEC’s enforcement division, said that Sprung aided the unit grow its knowledge and led efforts to adopt data-driven approaches.

He also received numerous awards during his stint with the agency such as the SEC Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Leadership and the Arthur F. Mathews Award.