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Final NDAA Calls For Cyber Warfare Policy, Explanation Of DoD Cloud Effort

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

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Final NDAA Calls For Cyber Warfare Policy, Explanation Of DoD Cloud Effort

Congress released the final version of its fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill Monday that calls on the Pentagon to implement the first ever cyber warfare policy and provide justification of its acquisition approach to its massive cloud computing projects before receiving full funding.House and Senate lawmakers’ National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report includes a provision withholding 15 percent of funding for the Department of Defense’s cloud initiatives, including the multi-billion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI), until congressional…

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