Defense Department officials are developing new recommendations aimed at sizing the Pentagon's cybersecurity science and technology budget over the next six-year spending plan, a DOD official told Congress last week.
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Sebastian Sprenger was the chief editor of Inside the Army until May 2016, where he primarily reported on land warfare and associated budgets, policies and technologies. A native of Siegen, Germany, he got is start in journalism at the now-defunct Westfälische Rundschau in Kreuztal. He studied at Universität Trier and elsewhere.
Defense Department officials are developing new recommendations aimed at sizing the Pentagon's cybersecurity science and technology budget over the next six-year spending plan, a DOD official told Congress last week.
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