Senate Homeland Security panel clears supply-chain bill intended to 'bridge' gaps with DOD

By Rick Weber / September 27, 2018 at 9:58 AM
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday unanimously approved a bipartisan bill that would establish a federal acquisition council to address supply-chain cybersecurity risks, in a move intended to "bridge the information gap" in purchasing decisions by civilian agencies and the Pentagon. "This bill addresses a significant failure of information sharing that exists between the intelligence community, which has better insight into these threats, and the rest of the government," the committee said in a statement following a...

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