By Justin Katz Dec 16, 2020 The National Security Council today announced it invoked an Obama-era presidential directive to create a special group responsible for managing the federal government's response to a breach in the networks of multiple agencies. "A Cyber Unified Coordination Group (UCG) has been established to ensure continued unity of effort across the United States Government in response to a significant cyber incident," John Ullyot, an NSC spokesman, said via Twitter. "The UCG process facilitates continuous and comprehensive coordination for whole-of-government efforts to identify, mitigate, remediate, and respond to this incident," the tweet continued, referring to agency networks that have been compromised by a vulnerability in SolarWinds' Orion, an IT management software suite.