DHS official: 'Strategic plan' for cybersecurity of GPS technology coming soon

DHS' National Risk Management Center is finalizing a “strategic plan” to address cybersecurity risks presented by Position, Navigation and Timing systems like the Global Positioning System, according to a DHS official familiar with efforts to secure Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's sign-off on the plan.

“We have a strategic plan in the works that we're hoping will be issued shortly by the secretary, which speaks to both position navigation and timing,” said Sarah Ellis Peed, associate director of the NRMC, which is...