Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson has said he wants the U.S. Navy‘s future warships to have a modular system design and technology that can support cyber and electronic warfare operations, Breaking Defense reported Friday.

“That platform may last the life of a traditional ship, 25 to 30 years… but we have to make it very much more modular or adaptable to improving technologies,” Richardson was quoted as saying.

He told reporters Monday that he also looks forward to exercising greater oversight of acquisition programs at the Navy in accordance with authority granted under the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act.

Richardson is working with the Defense Department and Congress to identify an approach for the Navy to eliminate bureaucratic acquisition practices and accelerate the process, according to the report.

He added the Navy aims to formalize a system for training its program managers.

A documentary film called “Zero Days” claims that the U.S. has devised a contingency plan to disable Iranian nuclear infrastructure with offensive cyber tools on short notice, Buzz Feed reported Tuesday.

James Ball writes the film, directed by Alex Gibney, reveals a joint U.S.-Israel effort to create the Stuxnet malicious computer worm that allegedly destroyed centrifuges at a uranium enrichment site in Natanz, Iran, as part of U.S.’ broader Nitro Zeus cyber operations.

The U.S. and Israel could independently access the virus’ source code and also used intelligence from British spy agency GCHQ to deploy the worm, the report said.

Buzz Feed saw the documentary ahead of its premiere Wednesday at the Berlin Film Festival and was offered access to some reporting and research materials used in film’s production, Ball noted.

The New York Times reports the U.S.’ Nitro Zeus strategy is aimed at Iranian power grid, communications and air defense assets and created after the signing of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers last summer.

The Obama administration aims to ensure that the country has alternative strategy if the diplomatic effort fails to curb Iran’s nuclear development program, according to the story by David Sanger and Mark Mazzetti.

Sanger and Mazzetti write the U.S. military formulates contingency plans for possible conflicts triggered by regional attacks or rebellions.

A team of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers has flown a new multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle to gather data about its capabilities as part of the agency’s Fast Lightweight Autonomy program.

DARPA said Friday it is exploring algorithms under the program in an effort to reduce the amount of UAV processing power, communications and required human intervention as well as to enable small UAV navigation in complex indoor environments.

The agency built an FLA quadcopter drone using a DJI Flamewheel 450 airframe, 12-inch E600 propellers, and a 3DR Pixhawk autopilot module.

The platform – equipped with onboard cameras, a LIDAR, a sonar and inertial measurement units —  flew at an airspeed of 20 meters per second during a flight test held at the Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts.

It also recognized and maneuvered around obstacles autonomously at a slow speed, DARPA noted.

DARPA chose a Draper-Massachusetts Institute of Technology alliance, the University of Pennsylvania and a Scientific Systems–AeroVironment partnership to help build FLA algorithms.

“The challenge for the teams now is to advance the algorithms and onboard computational efficiency to extend the UAVs’ perception range and compensate for the vehicles’ mass to make extremely tight turns and abrupt maneuvers at high speeds,” said Mark Micire, a DARPA program manager.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Joint Polar Satellite System nears its launch after the integration of the fifth and final instrument – Northrop Grumman’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder.

NOAA said Thursday JPSS-1 moves closer to its early 2017 launch following ATMS integration.

“Soon, the spacecraft will be prepared for the environmental testing phase which is the next step toward launch,” said JPSS Director Harry Cikanek.

The agency said ATMS will work to predict weather between three and seven days in advance.

NOAA added the instrument aims to give an inside view of clouds, hurricanes and other storms and to provide rainfall rates and snow and ice information.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies serves as the integrator of the JPSS-1 instruments and completed the integration of the first four instruments in April 2015.

The first responders group inside the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has launched a project that works to share encrypted data and live videos with public safety personnel through public television signals.

DHS said in a release posted Feb. 9 FRG conducted two pilot exercises for the Video Datacasting Project in Chicago and Houston in 2015.

FRG teamed up with SpectraRep, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and Public Broadcasting Service-related TV stations to carry out the two pilots with the goal to help facilitate data exchanges with first responders and law enforcement officials.

“Datacasting is a broadcasting mechanism capable of one-to-many content delivery which reduces congestion on public safety agencies’ networks,” said Cuong Luu, FRG program manager.

Users of the datacast-based system worked to send and receive images, live videos, files, alerts and other transmissions during the two pilot exercises.

DHS’ S&T directorate has started its search for new pilot locations and partners to conduct further tests on the datacast platform this year.