By Justin Katz
Mar 16, 2021
The U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday issued a declassified report concluding it has no indications that foreign actors attempted to alter technical aspects of the voting process during the 2020 elections. We assess that it would be difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes at scale without detection by intelligence collection on the actors themselves, through physical and cyber security monitoring around voting systems across the country, according to the new report compiled by multiple intelligence agencies and published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The report draws on the conclusions of a classified document delivered to the White House in January and says Russia, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, undertook a series of actions to both denigrate President Joe Biden and support former President Donald Trump during the 2020 elections. It also states that China largely avoided any ta
Sen. King speaks at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. (U.S. Navy photo)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), one of the chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, told reporters on Wednesday he and other lawmakers are drafting legislation that would mandate private sector companies supporting critical infrastructure to notify the government if their network is breached. The commission will be recommending a breach notification law applying to critical infrastructure shortly, probably within the month, he said. There are some tricky issues that have to be worked out, proprietary details, confidentiality, liability issues…We re pretty close. We have legislation drafted and we re continuing to refine it.
By Lauren C. Williams
Mar 16, 2021
The Defense Department needs to embrace artificial intelligence at every leadership level, according to Robert Work, vice chairman of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and former deputy defense secretary. We are shifting into an era of systems warfare, Work testified during a joint hearing with the House Armed Services Subcommittee on cyber, innovative technologies and information systems and the House Oversight and Reform national security subcommittee on March 12. Our adversaries explicitly say this and say the way we will defeat the U.S. military is to have better operational systems and the way to get there is to inject AI applications and autonomy into the systems.
Quick Hits Democrats in both chambers of Congress introduced a bill that would give healthcare professionals at the
Department of Veterans Affairs working under Title 38 status the same collective bargaining opportunities as other VA employees. Rep.
Mark Takano (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and Sen.
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) are the lead sponsors of the VA Employee Fairness 5 Act of 2021, which has the backing of the American Federation of Government Employees and National Nurses United. The
Office of Personnel Management has added 41 small businesses to the Human Capital and Training Solutions program, which consolidates human capital contracting across the federal government and provides agencies with human capital and training services.
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