The White House unveiled a "U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace" today that explains the administration's agenda for partnering with other countries to secure cyberspace.
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
The White House unveiled a "U.S. International Strategy for Cyberspace" today that explains the administration's agenda for partnering with other countries to secure cyberspace.
The White House today sent Congress a highly anticipated legislative proposal that addresses the federal government's cybersecurity strategy and authorities.
U.S. Joint Forces Command chief Gen. Raymond Odierno today defended plans to disestablish JFCOM, noting key functions would move to the Joint Staff's J-7, J-3 and J-8 directorates.
U.S. forces transitioning from "surge" operations in Iraq and Afghanistan need time to prepare for a full spectrum of threats, four top service officials told lawmakers today.
The Defense Department has already realized savings through the use of cloud computing in cyber defense applications, a U.S. Cyber Command official said today.
The Defense Department has made progress in efforts to centralize its cyberspace operations but has “a long way to go,” Defense Secretary Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a hearing this morning.
Congress will have to "get creative" to support new-start acquisition programs if a yearlong fiscal year 2011 continuing resolution is passed, according to the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
President Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2012 provides $2.3 billion to "support improved cybersecurity efforts" in the Defense Department and "greater joint planning efforts" between DOD and the Department of Homeland Security to increase the effectiveness of U.S. cybersecurity efforts, according to documents released this morning by the White House.
The government's capabilities in stopping a major cyberattack have room for improvement, a high-ranking intelligence official conceded in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence today.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) today introduced the members who will serve on the panel during the 112th Congress
At its first organizational meeting, the 62-member committee also approved rule changes and introduced new members from both parties.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates takes to the podium in just a few minutes.
The Pentagon faces $78 billion in cuts to its topline over the next five years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told lawmakers today, according to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-CA).
After objections from the Pentagon, lawmakers have dropped a proposal that would have required the defense secretary to appoint a senior official as the executive agent for preventing counterfeit microelectronics from entering the defense supply chain.
Recent attacks on the websites of multinational corporations deemed hostile to WikiLeaks and its jailed founder, Julian Assange, should be a "wake-up call" on the severity of the threat of cyberwar, according to a congressman who chairs a key cybersecurity caucus.
Acquiring high-tech cyber capabilities fast enough to adequately defend U.S. networks from attack remains challenging, according to Gregory Schaffer, the assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.
The Republican poised to assume the chairmanship of the House Armed Services Committee in the 112th Congress said today that he agrees with Defense Secretary Robert Gates' efficiency initiatives, but believes cutting the defense budget portends “an America in decline.”
A cybersecurity exercise sponsored last month by the Department of Homeland Security has major implications for efforts to define the Defense Department's role in guarding American networks from malicious cyber attacks, a senior Pentagon official said today.
U.S. Cyber Command has been “in action every day of its brief existence,” Gen. Keith Alexander told the House Armed Services Committee in testimony Wednesday.
An increasing number of complex issues on the global agenda is outpacing the ability of international organizations and national governments to address them, according to a report released today by the U.S. National Intelligence Council and the European Union's Institute for Security Studies.
NATO will assume the same time lines for a "phased adaptive approach" to missile defense as prescribed by President Obama last year, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said today.