Biden Issues Executive Order to Bolster Nation’s Cybersecurity President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters as he speaks about the American Rescue Plan, in the State Dining Room of the White House. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox.
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The administration calls for a standardized federal playbook and review board for incident response, as well as changes to software procurement.
It comes as the United States grapples with multiple ongoing cybersecurity incidents.
“Federal agencies can’t defend what they can’t see,” a senior administration official said during a call to preview the order with reporters. The official added that the effort “is about taking the steps necessary to prevent cyber intrusions from happening in the first place, and second ensuring we’re well-positioned to act rapidly.”
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BUDGET CRUNCH, ‘HARD CHOICES’: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman
Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, says he and the committee’s top Republican,
Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, are hoping to finish work on the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act before the next fiscal year starts, despite a late start forced by the late budget submission by the White House.
“Both Sen. Inhofe and I are determined to get our bill to the floor and then get the conference done and get a bill to the president s desk,” Reed said yesterday at an event sponsored by the Reagan Institute. “It s going to be difficult. We re going to have to make some hard choices, but our intention is to get the bill done. And to do so in a way that enhances our security.”
Congress can’t ‘take foot off the gas’ on DoD electronic warfare 2 hours ago Some members of Congress are frustrated with what they describe as a lack of focus on electronic warfare at the DoD. (Sgt. Cody Parsons/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON If it weren’t for recent congressional mandates placed into law, the Department of Defense would not have made significant improvements to its electronic warfare enterprise, one top lawmaker asserted. “We have had to force this on the services and the Joint Staff … if it wasn’t for Congress, none of this would be done,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Nebraska, a former one-star Air Force electronic warfare officer, said during a May 11 virtual event hosted by the Hudson Institute.
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