Opinion: July 2009 Archives

Government and industry experts told House lawmakers that the administration needs to restructure how Federal interagency information-sharing initiatives are funded and implemented to encourage compliance by agencies that currently place a higher priority on their own missions.

"Differing missions, overlapping turf conflicts, resource constraints, bureaucratic inertia and agency tunnel vision still exist and impede information sharing," said Ambassador Thomas McNamara, program manager of the Information Sharing Environment, a post within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  READ MORE

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The House of Representatives * Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology recently held a hearing concerning "Securing the Modern Electric Grid from Physical and Cyber Attacks".

The chairman for the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse, a congressionally mandated commission to study the risk of EMP pulses testified at this hearing. "By ignoring large scale, catastrophic EMP vulnerability, we invite such attack on our infrastructure by adversaries looking to attack us where we are weak, not where we are strong."  READ MORE