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Cyber

Cyber Security Requirements In Weapon System Contracts A Work In Progress, GAO Says

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, March 5th, 2021

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Cyber Security Requirements In Weapon System Contracts A Work In Progress, GAO Says

The Defense Department and Armed Forces have made progress the past few years in several areas to improve the cyber security of weapon systems but weaknesses remain, and in acquisition programs reviewed during a recent government audit, cyber security requirements didn’t exist or weren’t clear in contracts. “The government is less likely to get what it wants if it omits all or part of its cybersecurity requirements,” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a report issued March 4. Of…

Congress

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Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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Congress

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