Pentagon’s cyber certification program pushing ahead amid uncertainties of COVID-19 pandemic

The Defense Department is setting an aggressive schedule to get up to 1,500 contractors certified under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program by the end of this year, but the timing could shift on expected deliverables amid the response to the COVID-19 health crisis, according to public statements and remarks by sources.

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are hard to predict amid uncertainty on how long the health crisis will last and how it will affect all operations across the...