State of Washington - IR Cyber
Abstract
Washington State is the seventh most military-populated state in the country with just under 96,000 military personnel, and over 1900 companies in the defense supply chain representing over $10 billion in contract spending. This makes Washington one of the top ten states for Department of Defense contract spending over the last five years. This exposure to defense spending makes Washington vulnerable to any shift or uncertainty in defense budgets. This uncertainty and instability of defense spending – first driven by the Great Recession in 2008, followed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 is a continual concern for our state’s defense manufacturers. In partnership with the state’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership affiliate (Impact Washington), the University of Washington, and the Washington National Guard, the state of Washington proposes a unique partnership which will: - Strengthen the skills and abilities of the Washington National Guard’s cybersecurity personnel by providing penetration testing for impacted defense businesses. - Build partnerships through the MEP with the private sector to enhance relationship development needs that will encourage current and future trust in problem-solving, and - Create a cost-effective technical assistance delivery model for the DoD that accomplishes their goal of supporting the defense industrial base’s cybersecurity needs. At the end of this project the state expects to have informed 100% of the known defense supply chain of the NIST and DoD cybersecurity mandates. The state and its partners will engage 10% of the statewide DoD supply chain in active training on cybersecurity resiliency, and support 1% of the known defense supply chain in the state in achieving cybersecurity resiliency as outlined in the updated Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS). This work will serve as a model to take the program to scale at some future point.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 04, 2020
- Source ID
- HQ00051910040
Entities
People
- Kristiné Reeves
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Washington State Department of Commerce