Trump 'innovation' agenda snags cybersecurity order as 100-day mark approaches

President Trump's recent decision to have his son-in-law Jared Kushner develop a strategy for “innovation” and modernizing the government's information technology networks is further complicating an already arduous process for drafting a long-awaited executive order on cybersecurity, sources and administration officials say.

The plan for developing an IT modernization strategy is part of a broader agenda under the Office of American Innovation announced last month and led by Kushner to infuse business-based practices into reforming the government bureaucracy, which apparently...