The Government Accountability Office assessed the performance of 25 major information technology business programs of the Department of Defense and found that 19 of these programs did not fully report their progress on their operational performance.

GAO recommended that DOD ensure major IT programs report operational performance measures and related data to the federal IT dashboard, according to a report published Tuesday.

Of the 25 programs, the congressional watchdog found that officials for 15 of the programs said they have an approved cybersecurity strategy and provided a copy of that strategy.

While 10 of the programs reported having system security plans in place to manage supply chain risks facing information and communications technology, the other 15 programs did not show that they had ICT supply chain risk management plans.

“Until DOD ensures that these programs have such plans, they are less likely to be able to manage supply chain risks and mitigate threats that could disrupt operations,” the GAO report reads.

According to the report, four programs represented over half of DOD’s budget for major IT business systems in fiscal year 2022 and these are the department’s Healthcare Management System Modernization, Navy Enterprise Resource Planning, General Fund Enterprise Business System and Global Combat Support System-Army.

The House Appropriations Committee has released a draft bill that would allocate $761.7 billion in defense funding for fiscal year 2023, reflecting an increase of $32.2 billion from the FY 2022 enacted funding level.

The defense funding bill would appropriate $173.1 billion for military personnel; $269.3 billion for operation and maintenance; $131.7 billion for research, development, test and evaluation; and $143.9 billion for procurement, the House panel said Tuesday.

Under the bill’s procurement section, the measure would earmark $27.8 billion for the purchase of eight Navy ships, $7.2 billion for 61 F-35 fighter jets, $1.5 billion for B-21 Raider procurement and $2.7 billion for the acquisition of 15 KC-46 tankers.

The draft legislation would provide $1.7 billion for the U.S. Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance program and $1.1 billion for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program.

The bill also includes security assistance to Ukraine, $2.5 billion in investments in climate adaptation efforts and clean energy technologies and a requirement for contractors to pay a minimum wage of $15 per hour.

The Department of Homeland Security has released a document meant to help companies design positioning, navigation and timing systems with cybersecurity features such as zero trust.

DHS’ science and technology directorate said Monday the PNT Reference Architecture guide includes application examples involving system resilience approaches and is a continuation of version 2.0 of the Resilient PNT Conformance Framework.

Kathryn Coulter Mitchell, acting undersecretary for DHS S&T, noted that global positioning systems and other PNT-based services have multiple applications across the critical infrastructure sector.

For example, timing information from GPS plays a critical role in telecommunications and is used for network synchronization. It is also used for certain protective functions in the power grid,” she added.