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Teresa Shea, vice president of cyber offensive and defensive experts at Raytheon Technologies, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the government and industry should collaborate to protect the defense industrial base from cyber threat actors and strengthen the country’s cyber resiliency.

Christian Zur of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Scott Kordella of Mitre wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that the U.S. needs to have a “single operational picture” to facilitate timely and accurate monitoring of aircraft and space systems and enable the space launch sector to safely coexist with the aviation industry.

The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its support for the Department of Defense’s new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification to mitigate risks from its supply chain, the branch stated in February.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure business at Forcepoint, wrote in a GCN article published Friday that fog computing and cross-domain technologies could help warfighters at the tactical edge secure and accelerate sharing of data gathered from various internet-connected devices.

The GovCon industry is calling on the government to pursue sharing of insider threat data about cleared employees with contractors as agencies prepare to ramp up their vetting and continuous evaluation initiatives as part of the administration’s security clearance modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Friday.

A new LexisNexis Risk Solutions survey has found that 66 percent of law enforcement leaders said they prefer to share data with agencies nationwide and 34 percent said they intend to share information with their region only.

Trace Systems has completed a task to take charge of information sharing activities within the U.S. Air Force’s Mission Partner Capabilities Office.

IBM has made its Watson artificial intelligence platform available across all cloud environments offered by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers, Nextgov reported Thursday. Claude Yusti, head of the AI practice at IBM’s federal branch, said the move could help federal agencies advance AI adoption and circumvent barriers to data access and information sharing.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for information on potential sources of a technology platform that can help the Defense Department and its industrial base partners share cybersecurity information. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the DIBNet and Cybersecurity Information Sharing effort aims to build a primary portal …

Phil Quade, chief information security officer at Fortinet, told Federal News Radio’s Ask the CIO program that aired Wednesday federal agency leaders seeking to cyber-secure operational technology used to power critical infrastructure should address the rising integration of OT with information technology driven by the prevalence of internet-connected devices. Quade said …

A new BDO USA survey has found that 79 percent of board members at public companies say their boards have become more involved in cybersecurity efforts than they were in the past year. The company said Tuesday its corporate government practice polled 140 public company directors in August for the 2017 …

A new report from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance suggests that real-time exchange of cyber threat data between government and financial institutions can help strengthen the cybersecurity of the U.S. financial sector. INSA said Wednesday its Financial Threats Task Force prepared a position paper that calls for the launch of a classified information …

Dell Technologies’ RSA Security business and the NATO Communications and Information Agency have agreed to exchange cyber threat data in an effort to build up situational awareness and safeguard networks from vulnerabilities. RSA signed Tuesday the industry partnership agreement with NCI during the NITEC17 conference in Ottawa, Canada, the agency said Tuesday. …

Jayne Friedland Holland, chief security officer at information services provider NIC, has said fusion centers can help government agencies defend against hacktivism and other cyber crimes through intelligence data sharing. Holland wrote in a guest post published Wednesday on GCN the intelligence gathering entities share a similar cybersecurity mission with government, law enforcement and private organizations. She noted that fusion …

BAE Systems has received a potential five-year, $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to deploy and maintain systems built to secure information sharing across government networks. The data-sharing technologies that BAE is tasked to deliver under the Systems Engineering and Evaluation System Analysis Worldwide Cross Domain contract will …