Cyber warfare and security systems should be procured outside the traditional acquisition process to allow for quicker fielding to counter rapidly evolving threats, Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acting top official for acquisition, said recently. “What we’re going to try to put in place is a way to respect the fact that cyber has to move at a much fast pace than anything else we do,” Kendall said. “The technologies move extremely quickly. We have to react instantaneously to many of…
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