NASA’s future lunar base will be equipped with a novel microgrid
Source: Interesting Engineering
Published: May 12, 2022
NASA and Sandia National Laboratories are joining forces to build a microgrid for a future lunar base, according to a statement by the latter published on Wednesday. Called the Artemis lunar base, it will include a habitation unit (for up to four astronauts) and separate mining and fuel processing facilities. These facilities would be built far away from the base camp and would serve to produce rocket fuel, water, oxygen, and other materials needed for extended exploration of the lunar surface while decreasing supply needs from Earth.
NIST Refreshing Voluntary Cybersecurity Framework Amid Push for Mandates
NIST Refreshing Voluntary Cybersecurity Framework Amid Push for Mandates
Source: Nextgov
Published: February 22, 2022
The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to know how it might improve its landmark framework of cybersecurity standards and practices and streamline similar efforts related to particular issues like privacy and supply-chain security. “Every organization needs to manage cybersecurity risk as a part of doing business, whether it is in industry, government or academia,” said Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves in a news bulletin NIST published Tuesday. “It is critical to their resilience and to our nation’s economic security. There are many tools available to help, and the CSF is one of the leading frameworks for private sector cybersecurity maintenance. We want private and public sector organizations to help make it even more useful and widely used, including by small companies.”