Independent evaluation for the cyber force is no longer necessary as Congress had already required such assessments as part of the fiscal 2023 NDAA, noted the Defense Department in its plea, which also warned about a possible report that does not completely account for the Cyber Command’s readiness challenges should the research outfit tasked to do the job only have access to public data. “It is troubling to me that DOD’s response to a request for a transparent look is, ‘No, we don’t want transparency.

Source: SC Magazine