:

Cyber

Defense Department Awards HackerOne And Synack Contract To Help Shape Bug Bounty Cyber Program

Friday, October 21st, 2016

SHARE:

Defense Department Awards HackerOne And Synack Contract To Help Shape Bug Bounty Cyber Program

iStock Cyber Lock

The Defense Department awarded a contract to HackerOne and Synack to create a new contract vehicle for department components and services to launch their own cyber ‘bug bounty’ challenges, the department said Thursday.The contract vehicle will allow DoD components to more easily launch their own challenges similar to the Hack the Pentagon program and aims to ultimately normalize a crowd-sources approach to digital defenses.The department earlier this year hosted its first bug bounty program at the direction of Secretary of…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]