Washington, July 24 -- Congressman James R. Walkinshaw issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), who serves on the House Oversight and Government Reform and Homeland Security Committees, secured House passage of his amendment to more efficiently deploy modern cybersecurity solutions within the Department of Defense (Dod), strengthen military cyber readiness, and encourage the concept of interagency reciprocity with regard to cloud security assessments and certifications.
The amendment establishes a pilot program to help the DoD deploy modern cybersecurity tools more efficiently by accelerating review of cloud-based products that have already received FedRAMP High certification, the federal governm...