Northrop Grumman Cyber Report: [Sep 23, 21] Status of Cyber-Related Legislation

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the executive director of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission who is also affiliated with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, discusses the status of cyber-related legislation working through the House and Senate, key cyber attributes of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure measure being debated by lawmakers, future cyber priorities, addressing long-standing and pervasive operating systems vulnerabilities across US military systems and networks, the defense budget outlook including the prospects of debt-driven spending constraints, and how the new Australia-United States-United Kingdom deal to furnish Canberra with new nuclear-powered attack submarines can be executed and what Washington has to do to address France’s concerns with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.