NTIA's Friedman: Transparency is basic tool for informing better procurement decisions

More transparency is needed in order to help resolve the significant challenges facing government acquisition officials poised to receive substantial funds to modernize government IT systems for cybersecurity, according to a key Commerce Department official.

“Once we have this level of transparency into what's in our products, we'll be able to do a lot more and start to implement a lot of the thornier aspects that folks have been working on for a while,” said Allan Friedman, director of cybersecurity...