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TSA Employing Multi-Layer Security and Outcome Driven Contracting to Safeguard Passengers, Deploy Advanced Technology  (Bridget Johnson, HSToday)
The Transportation Security Administration is moving forward with its ambitious agenda to strengthen security through modernizing systems and equipping its workforce, Assistant Administrator for Contracting and Procurement and Head of Contracting Activity Bill Weinberg told industry representatives at the Government Technology and Services Coalition’s annual meeting.
Weinberg began his current role at TSA in November 2020 as an acquisition veteran of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Commerce. “This is my third year at TSA, and I learn more about TSA all the time,” he said.
While travelers encounter TSA officers at checkpoints, the multiple layers of security behind the scenes that the public doesn’t see constantly adapt and evolve to meet the threat landscape and incorporate tech advances.

What Role Should Industry Play in Military Space Operations? The Space Force Is Working on a Strategy for That.  (Audrey Decker, Defense One)
The U.S. Space Force is working on clearer guidelines for how it works with commercial companies—including during a potential conflict in space—and plans to have a new strategy by the end of the year.
The service had to revise its original “commercial space strategy” because the draft didn’t provide enough specifics to industry, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said Wednesday at the Center for a New American Security.

AI Concerns Continue as Governments Look for the Right Mix of Regulations and Protections  (John Breeden II, Nextgov)
There is little doubt that the emerging science of artificial intelligence is continuing to advance and grow, both in capabilities and the number of things that AI is being tasked with doing. And this is happening at lightning speed, despite there being little to no regulation in place to govern its use.
In the case of AI, and especially the new generative AI models like ChatGPT 4, the reason for both agencies and the private sector to proceed, even without guardrails, is likely due to the potential of game-changing AI to provide incredible benefits that seem to outweigh any associated risks. And AI is also starting to rack up an impressive portfolio of success stories.

The Supreme Court Considers Whether a Very Stupid Gun Law Is Also Unconstitutional  (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) is one of the most incompetently drafted statutes to reach the Supreme Court in a long time. It is written as though the state legislature were trying to goad federal courts into striking it down — something such a court did, in fact, do last March.
And yet, if you stare at the law long enough, it is possible to find individual provisions that may actually be constitutional.
Granted, most of the law reads like a love letter to a discredited theory of states’ rights that sparked a crisis in the 1830s which threatened the Union and foreshadowed a coming Civil War. But, as Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey argues in a brief to the Supreme Court, at least some parts of the law can plausibly be read to advance a lawful and constitutional goal: barring Missouri law enforcement officers from enforcing certain federal gun laws.
The question the Supreme Court must untangle in Missouri v. United States, in other words, is what to do with a gun rights law that could have been constitutional if it were written differently, but that instead reads like it was drafted.