Better Buying Power to address cybersecurity

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Michael Hardy

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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