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Will DOD’s New Cybersecurity Program Stifle Small Businesses or Get Them to Tighten Up?

Nov. 12, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman
Next year, the long delayed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, or CMMC, will introduce cybersecurity compliance requirements into DOD contracts. Some are worried this added burden might discourage small and innovative companies from competing to sell to the Air and Space Forces. Others are proposing ...

Air Force Managers Can Call in Hackers-for-Hire Under New Contract

March 16, 2020 | By Shaun Waterman
The Air Force’s current procedure for certifying new IT equipment or software is infamous. To get Authority to Operate (ATO) requires voluminous documentation and can take weeks or months. To get new capabilities to the warfighter faster, Air Force leaders last year authorized a new ...

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