Tag: USA

CISA Director to Appoint Hackers to Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly will use her discretion to put members of the hacking community on a new federal advisory...
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Don’t Blindly Trust Software Building Blocks, Report Says (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

After the SolarWinds and Kaseya attacks spread malware far and wide across government and business networks, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 Cloud Threat Team...
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NIST Seeks Feedback on Cybersecurity Labels for Software (Alexandra Kelley, Nextgov)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is looking for input on new cybersecurity guidance for consumer software in a bid to increase the...
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Air Force to Build New Center to Study and Enhance Directed Energy Capabilities (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Air Force Research Laboratory confirmed plans to open up a new center for strategic studies into directed energy—like lasers and high-power electromagnetics applied...
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$1.2T Infrastructure Plan Offers Lucrative Target for Fraud (Jetson Leder-Luis, Nextgov)

Lawmakers passed the US$1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Nov. 5, 2021, with negotiations still ongoing over Democrats’ $1.75 trillion plan to expand the social safety net and...
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What Worked, What Didn’t at Army’s Second Connect-Everything Experiment (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)

If last year’s edition of the U.S. Army’s massive connect-everything experiment was a proof of concept, this year’s was a far bigger effort to...
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Milley’s Hypersonic Hyperbole May Have Been His ‘Missile Gap’ Moment (William D. Hartung, Defense One)

After last month’s Chinese test of a hypersonic missile, Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley described it as “very close” to a “Sputnik moment,”...
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Harris, Macron unveil new initiatives on space, cybersecurity after meeting (Morgan Chalfant, The Hill)

Vice President Harris on Wednesday announced new initiatives with France on space and cybersecurity following a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. Harris, Macron unveil...
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Rivalry with China in Pacific need not lead to new Cold War, says U.S. security advisor (Kirsty Needham, Reuters)

The "stiff competition" between the United States and China in the Indo-Pacific does not have to turn into a new Cold War, U.S. national...
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Biden-Xi virtual summit tentatively set for Monday (Phelim Kine, Nahal Toosi, Politico)

The much-anticipated virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping is tentatively scheduled for the evening of Nov. 15, a U.S....
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White House preparing ‘follow up’ sanctions on Belarus (Kevin Liptak, CNN)

The United States is preparing "follow up sanctions" designed to hold leaders in Belarus accountable for "ongoing attacks on democracy, human rights and international norms," a spokesman for...
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Soldiers won’t always be able to rely on contractors for coders, says Army Software Factory director (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The head of the Army’s new software organizations say the service won’t always be able to rely on contractors for software support, and that’s...
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Cyber Marines could be empowered to act boldly under commandant’s future force vision (Megan Eckstein, Defense News)

As the U.S. Marine Corps continues to reshape the force through the commandant’s Force Design 2030 effort and the recently released Talent Management 2030 plan,...
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The cyber battlefield against China and Russia is constantly shifting. Here’s how the NSA is trying to stay on top (Stephen Losey, Defense News)

In the battle over cyberspace, adversaries to the United States are continually switching up their methods to hack U.S. systems, a senior National Security Agency official...
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Pentagon ‘zero trust’ cyber office coming in December (Joe Gould, Defense News)

Next month, the Pentagon will formally launch a new office dedicated to accelerating the adoption of a new “zero trust” cybersecurity model, a senior...
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US Cyber Command publishes concept for integrating new capabilities (Mark Pomerlau, Defense News)

U.S. Cyber Command has both created a concept of operations and established a capability management office to address issues with its focused architecture for cyber capabilities,...
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