Under the deal, the company will provide one Global 6500 jet with options for the service to buy two more.
At its most basic level, under CMMC 2.0, defense contractors and subcontractors that have access to controlled unclassified information (CUI) will be required to demonstrate the “maturity” of their cybersecurity programs against a set of increasingly advanced capabilities.
The Saudis and the Emiratis may have an obvious interest in secure shipping lanes themselves, former senior Pentagon official Mick Mulroy told Breaking Defense, “but [they] do not want to be seen as supporting Israel.”
George Mason University’s Jerry McGinn argues in this op-ed that the Pentagon can move more quickly if it heeds lessons from a previous life-or-death acquisition story.
Next up will be the first test flight with the fully integrated prototype that will add in the payloads and mission system.
