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DoD Fully Funds Joint Regional Security Stacks In FY ’16 Budget, Work Says

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

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The Defense Department “fully-funded” equipment to upgrade and secure its computer networks in its fiscal year 2016 budget request, according to DoD’s number two civilian.Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Jan. 28 DoD’s Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSS) will reduce the number of firewalls DoD has to defend from 1,000 to 50, which will make the Pentagon “far more defendable” as a network. Work told an audience at a Center for New American Security (CNAS) event in downtown Washington fully-funding…

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