Cyber Report [Dec 14, 22] Convo w/ Rep. Jim Langevin

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, in one of his last interviews before retiring from Congress, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-RI, the chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities as well as the Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and innovation, discusses progress in improving the nation’s cyber defenses and what more needs to be done, lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine that can help deter China from moving on Taiwan, the cost of addressing software and hardware vulnerabilities across US weapons systems, emerging threats, ways to more quickly acquire innovative technologies at scale, the need to improve America’s nuclear weapons production capabilities, and how to get things done despite increasing partisanship in Washington, and what’s next after more than two decades in Congress with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.