Quick Hits
General Services Administration's new integrated System for Award Management website did not go well.
*** A bipartisan bug bounty provision sponsored by Reps.
Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and three colleagues would sets up a vulnerability disclosure program at the
U.S. Department of State. The measure was included in the, State Department Authorization Act, passed last week in the House of Representatives.
*** At a Senate hearing last week,
Richard Kidd, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for environment and energy resilience said that the
Defense Department's CIO has a key role to play in making sure that DOD's facility related control systems, "are defensible, survivable, and resilient to operate and sustain critical functions in a cyber- contested environment."