“Research shows that at some point in the not too distant future when quantum information science matures and quantum computers are able to reach a sufficient size and level of sophistication, they’ll be capable of breaking much of the cryptography that currently secures our digital communication,” a senior administration official said.
“I think that we have struggled for a very long time on the Mission Partner Environment,” Danielle Metz, chief IT strategist for the office of the secretary of defense, said. “The combatant commanders have been screaming for the need to be able to seamlessly… collaborate not only internally with themselves, but across the mission partners.
“What we’re finding, though, in recent times is that ransomware is a national security imperative as well," Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, director of operations for US Cyber Command, said.
"The situation in Ukraine has made this more evident that we need to do the information sharing and we need to… mobilize our enterprise services,” Caroline Bean, acting director for DISA's joint enterprise services directorate, told the AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2022 conference.
New framework designed "so we spend a vast majority of our time actually focusing on the security [...] and not spending, where we traditionally were, about 80% of our time just getting the paperwork ready so we could get an approval to operate."
"As far as reaching out to kind of the multinational world and the federal space, we haven't yet, but that's something that's kind of on the roadmap for us to get to," Drew Malloy, technical director for DISA’s cyber development directorate, said.
The director of the Defense Information Systems Agency laid out 14 areas where industry can help the agency.