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Leonardo DRS’ Todd Hicks: Military, Industry Work Together to Address Cyber Threats

Leonardo DRS’ Todd Hicks: Military, Industry Work Together to Address Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
Todd Hicks
Leonardo DRS’ Todd Hicks: Military, Industry Work Together to Address Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
Todd Hicks

Todd Hicks, chief technology officer at Leonardo DRS, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday how industry helps the military address cyber challenges. He said the industry works with the Pentagon to identify the requirements and strengthen policies that are coming down to the acquisition offices.

“Tactically, with the products, we’re leaning forward with industry-cutting-edge technologies, baking them into our offerings, regardless of the shortcomings with the government requirements. We’re still applying the hardening measures to hardware and adding integrity measures,” Hicks added.

He discussed the government’s focus on risk management framework, cyber attacks on embedded systems and adversaries’ efforts to plan and launch a low-level cyber attack.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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