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Lawmakers Seek Insight Into DoD Cyber Effort

Julie Samuel

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

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Lawmakers are calling on the Pentagon to report in the near future on a nascent cybersecurity program with the defense industry to assess how to better defend government and critical infrastructure networks. The fiscal year 2012 defense authorization law--which President Barack Obama signed Dec. 31, 2011--requires the defense secretary to report to Congress by March 1 on the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot program launched last June. House and Senate lawmakers who wrote the final version of the policy bill emphasized…

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