Protecting the supply chain and CUI will only become more challenging as the number of defense contractors and the amount of data they house continues to increase.
Frank Kendall picked as Air Force secretary defense
Frank Kendall picked as Air Force secretary Frank Kendall addresses reporters during a press briefing May 22, 2013, at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (DOD photo by Sgt. Aaron Hostutler, U.S. Marine Corps/Released)
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Frank Kendall the last head of defense acquisition in the Obama administration before the position was reformed is President Biden’s pick to be secretary of the Air Force.
The White House announced Biden’s intent to nominate Kendall to the role Tuesday.
During his most recent tenure in government, Kendall served as undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics between 2011 and 2017. In an earlier stint at the Department of Defense, he was deputy director of defense research and engineering, before leaving to serve as Raytheon’s vice president of engineering.
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New cyber-hardening mandates may be coming for defense firms 3 days ago Washington seems likely to take steps requiring the defense industrial base better harden against cyber attacks, two veterans of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission said Wednesday. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― Washington seems likely to take steps requiring the defense industrial base to better harden against cyberattacks, two veterans of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission said Wednesday. Speaking at the C4ISRNET Conference, the commission’s executive director, Mark Montgomery, said he foresees the panel’s recommendations that the Pentagon make cyber intelligence sharing and threat-hunting capabilities mandatory for suppliers will “kick into effect.”