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Senate Bill Directs DoD To Define Information Operations Efforts, Software Needs

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, October 4th, 2017

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The Senate’s recently passed defense authorization bill calls on the secretary of Defense to prioritize cyber resiliency efforts across the department with a task force to establish an information operations campaign and directives to assess software and technological capabilities.Several amendments added to the Senate’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 passed on Sept. 18 urge the Department of Defense to integrate efforts across organizations to take stock of vulnerabilities in current cyber offensive and defensive applications.Sen.…

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