The Office of Personnel Management seeks $37 million in funds to migrate the agency’s information technology systems to a proposed “Shell” infrastructure in fiscal 2017, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

Nicole Ogrysko writes acting OPM Director Beth Cobert told a House appropriations subcommittee Monday that agency personnel came up with a $37-million cost estimation for the IT project after several months of discussion.

Cobert estimates OPM will spend about $10 million to move federal recruitment and hiring platforms to Shell and additional money to plan modernization of complex systems at the agency, Ogrysko reports.

“We want to do that planning in ’17, so that when we make the investments to modernize those systems we have a clear plan in place,” added Cobert, a 2016 Wash100 recipient.

Lt. Gen. Robert Ferrell, the Army‘s chief information officer, has introduced a strategy that seeks to facilitate data exchanges on its network as the service branch moves to implement the Common Operating Environment.

The Army Data Strategy is based on the Defense Department’s Net-Centric Data Strategy that seeks to improve data access and interoperability across the department.

The document also describes key initiatives and goals of the strategy, including the Army Information Architecture, Army Authoritative Data Source, Army Data Governance process and information exchange specification rules.

Ferrell noted that the strategy also details a plan on how to adopt data management practices in an effort to accelerate decision-making processes and improve situational awareness.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced draft guidelines that seek to help corporate organizations protect networks from data breaches and other cyber attacks as a result of the adoption of bring-your-own-devices and computers for telework.

NIST said Monday the proposed publications suggest the deployment of virtual mobile infrastructure and mobile device management platforms in order to bolster data security in BYOD and telework devices.

“To prevent breaches when people are teleworking, organizations need to have stronger control over their sensitive data that can be accessed by, or stored on, telework devices,” said Murugiah Souppaya, a computer scientist at NIST.

The guides also urge enterprises to set up a separate network for BYOD program and encourage teleworkers to adopt approaches on how to ensure security of corporate data.

Public comments on the draft publications are due April 15.

The U.S. government plans to blame Iran in a public statement for a 2013 cyber breach on a dam based 30 miles north of New York City, CNN reported Thursday.

Evan Perez and Shimon Prokupecz write the Justice Department will issue an indictment within the week against hackers investigators believe are working for Iran’s government.

CNN reports the hackers were able to access some office systems but not the dam’s operational data, according to the report.

Hackers out of Iran attempted to attack U.S. financial institutions around the same time as the breach on the Bowman Avenue Dam in Rye Brook, N.Y., according to the report.

The dam attack involved the use of commercial-off-the-shelf software, CNN said.