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January 27, 2020 By cs

These IT, cyber provisions in the NDAA may have flown under your radar

The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act always is chalk full of interesting and impactful policy changes or updates. 
The thing with the 1,794-page bill is knowing where to look.

No one person can read through the roughly 8 pounds of paper without missing a few important nuggets. So with some help of some federal experts, I dug into the NDAA and found several provisions that likely flew under your radar:

Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Dennis Crall, the senior military adviser for cyber policy for the Defense Department’s chief information officer, offered simple advice at the recent AFCEA Northern Virginia luncheon: “Read the NDAA.”

Specifically, Crall wanted industry to look at the provision requiring each military service to create a principal cyber adviser — Section 905, if you are keeping score at home.

“Congress gave us very directed tasks and responsibilities for this new billet or this new role. There are also some implied tasks. The services need some time to go through this and decide how they are going to provide a level of sufficient implementation,” Crall said.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-notebook-jason-miller/2020/01/these-it-cyber-provisions-in-the-ndaa-may-have-flown-under-you-radar/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: CMMC, cyber, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, cybersecurity standards, DoD, IT, lead system integrator, LSI, NDAA

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