Navy cyber review calls for service to create full-time CIO

By Mallory Shelbourne / March 13, 2019 at 12:19 PM
The Navy should create a full-time chief information officer to dedicate proper resources to cybersecurity and act on department suggestions to improve the service’s cyber practices, according to a recent service review. The document , sent to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer March 4 and released this week, criticizes the Navy's "current stovepiped structure," arguing it is focused on the kinetic fight, but is "losing the global cyber enabled information war." "[The Navy Secretary] should task the DON CIO with reviewing...

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