The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

House Veterans Affairs lawmakers sought answers on Wednesday about why the Veterans Affairs Department massively increased the contract for its electronic health record system. But, one key participant in the project, the contractor Oracle, failed to show up and committee members were not happy. Federal News Network executive editor Jason Miller joins me now with details on how lawmakers plan to force Oracle to testify.
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Recent attacks on water utilities have shown how quickly a local cybersecurity incident can become a national concern. The systems that deliver drinking water are operated by thousands of separate organizations with varying resources and cyber capabilities. For more on what that means for protecting critical infrastructure, I'm joined by Ozgur Ozmen, assistant professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University.
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A recent Congressional Budget Office report estimates that it could cost over $7 billion to protect military installations from unmanned aircraft. But the report also highlights a threat that is evolving faster than traditional acquisition cycles. For a closer look, I'm joined by Bill Ostrowski, CEO of MyDefence North America.
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A new White House strategy ranks the technologies viewed as most important to national security and economic competitiveness. According to one new industry analysis, less attention is being paid to reducing cyber risk in the systems government already relies on every day. Rob Smith and Brad LaPorte of LionFish Tech Advisors join me now to discuss those gaps.
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Today on the Federal Drive with Terry Gerton
Recent attacks on water utilities exposed a cybersecurity challenge that's national in scope but local in responsibility
It may be easier to calculate the cost of defending military bases from drones than to design defenses that can adapt as quickly as the drones do.
As Washington races to build the next generation of national security technology, some cybersecurity experts are focused on the systems already in the field
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