The Week Ahead: MITRE hosts software and supply-chain meetings, as Congress tries to avoid shutdown

The MITRE Corporation -- in conjunction with DHS, the Pentagon and NIST -- will host software and supply-chain assurance meetings this week, while events on cyber threats to small and medium sized businesses and on Chinese quantum technology developments are on tap, and Congress and the White House try to to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday.

Several pieces of cyber-related legislation still have a chance of being attached to the year-end spending bill needed to avoid a shutdown,...