Tag Archives: Richard Blumenthal

A group of six senators has called on leaders of the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to respond to several questions with regard to a cyber vulnerability involving SolarWinds’ Orion Network Management products. The letter came days after CISA issued an emergency directive directing all agencies to immediately disconnect SolarWinds Orion products versions 2019.4 to 2020.2.1 HF1. 

Sens. David Perdue, R-Ga.; Edward Markey, D-Mass.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have addressed the country's cyber officials on hospitals' protection against cyber attacks. The senators asked U.S. Cyber Command and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to better protect hospitals against cyber attacks, Warner's office said Tuesday.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., wrote a letter to Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator and 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, to promote industrial collaboration as the space agency plans to revive manned exploration. Rubio and Blumenthal want NASA's Artemis exploration program to demonstrate safety measures, produce information on lunar resources and develop technologies for future explorations, with the U.S. space industry, the senators said in a letter posted Tuesday.

McAleese & Associates reports the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet aircraft has achieved a mission-capable-rate of 66 percent. By end of 2019, the Navy is confident it will meet Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ mandate of 80 percent mission-capable.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have introduced a pair of cybersecurity bills in a move to increase the government’s ability to thwart cyber threats from hostile nations and secure U.S. election systems. Graham’s office said Tuesday the International Cybercrime Prevention Act that would equip federal prosecutors …

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) will serve as a ranking member on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee next year and succeed Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), Military Times reported Wednesday. Leo Shane writes Tester, a ranking member on the Senate Appropriations’ veterans affairs subcommittee, will be positioned as a top Democrat candidate that can …

Senators have proposed a bipartisan amendment that they plan to integrate with the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill in an effort to make the U.S. Cyber Command as a unified combatant command within the Defense Department, Defense News reported Wednesday. Joe Gould writes Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) said he agrees with Navy …

Sens. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct.) have asked the CEOs of 18 automakers through a letter to provide updated information on measures their companies have implemented in order to protect automobiles’ electronics systems from potential cyber attacks. The request for information is in line with the investigation …