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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 23, 2021 at 4:19 PM
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WASHINGTON: “The principal challenge DoD faces is not a lack of innovation,” Christine Fox told Congress Tuesday. “The tougher task is how to adopt all this new innovation more rapidly into DoD programs….We have lots of prototypes but what we need is sustainable programs.”
Fox, the former head of the Pentagon’s powerful Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) unit, was testifying to the first-ever hearing of House Armed Services’ newest subcommittee, Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems. The topic of the day was innovation – but Fox and her fellow acquisition experts on the panel made clear that having lots of neat ideas was far from enough.
The Cybersecurity 202: Investigations into Russian, North Korean hackers are shaping Biden s foreign policy Tonya Riley
with Aaron Schaffer
The Biden administration is plunging ahead in a pair of high-profile cybersecurity investigations into North Korean and Russian hackers, shedding light on how it plans to crack down on foreign hackers after the Trump administration downplayed the issue in the 2016 election and its aftermath. The Biden administration yesterday elaborated on its ongoing investigation into a massive Russian hack of at least nine government agencies and about 100 companies tied to the SolarWinds breach. The White House is focused on “working to expel the adversary, we are working to build those networks and improve the cybersecurity of federal networks, and we re also carefully thinking through how we respond,” Anne Neuberger, national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters in her first White House briefing.
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