Cybersecurity will be part of Better Buying Power 3.0, the next iteration of the Defense Department’s acquisition guidance designed to reduce costs, according to Frank Kendall, DoD’s acquisition chief.
A draft version of the document released last September lacked cyber as a category. Kendall promised the final version will address it.
“We worry about the weapons systems themselves and all of the connectivity they might have,” said Kendall, speaking at a Bloomberg Government forum on Thursday. “These are ways in which a cyber threat can launch an attack, you can think of it as an attack surface, if you will.”
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