Secretary Nielsen: DHS working with Pentagon, White House to update critical infrastructure R&D plan

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced today that DHS, in partnership with the Department of Defense and the White House, is working to update the National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research and Development Plan, while also detailing her concerns about cyber being a “weakest link problem.”

“Back in 2015, in coordination with the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House and the inter-agencies, we developed the National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Research and Development Plan,”...