"I don't need China, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, knowing any more about us than they already do," Katie Arrington, who is performing the duties of the DoD CIO, said.
2025 may be a telling year for the fate of the Pentagon's new CMMC 2.0 program.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Even for a political party that campaigns on cutting regulations, Pentagon and industry figures say the next Republican administration will likely weigh security over deregulation.
CMMC 2.0 introduced a third-party assessment dependent on contractor's CUI capacity.
"We have a really a kind of crisis of cybersecurity or lack of within the defense industrial base," CyberSheath CEO Eric Noonan told Breaking Defense.
TraCSS will go above and beyond DoD's current collision warning process by publicly providing the specifics of a potential crash in what are deemed emergency situations, explained Mariel Borowitz, OSC director of international SSA engagement.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
The new proposal includes new requirements for contracting officers, ensuring that parties bidding on Pentagon contracts are properly protecting sensitive information.
SSC Director of International Affairs Deanna Ryals told Breaking Defense that the primary goal of the first-ever "international reverse industry days" meeting is survey the landscape of needed allied space capabilities, and figure out where countries can help fill each other's gaps.
"In my mind, these are some of these avenues that we're looking at at an idea phase now to see if we can put resources behind it," said Robert Vietmeyer, director for cloud and software modernization.