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Cyber

White House Wants Key Telecom Advisory Committee To Study Need For Software Defined Networks

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019

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White House Wants Key Telecom Advisory Committee To Study Need For Software Defined Networks

Federal CISO Grant Schneider

The top White House cyber security official on Tuesday asked a public-private advisory panel charged with making recommendations to ensure the resilience of the nation’s telecommunications networks and services to undertake a study on the importance of more agile information and communications networks (ICT) for the federal government and critical infrastructures. The new “study would be to identify best practices and develop recommendations for a strategic plan to deploy software defined networking,” Grant Schneider, the federal chief information security officer…

Congress

SASC Cites Concern With Army’s sUAS Approach, Seeks Info On Plans To Scale Fielding

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Army

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