ETI News: Pentagon Preparing Release of ‘Due Diligence Tools’ for Small Businesses

The Defense Department will be starting a new program for “commercial tool demonstrations” to help small businesses learn about and strengthen cybersecurity measures “within the next year,” a department official said Aug. 8. In fiscal year 2023, Congress required DoD by 2027 “to establish a new program where we actually do commercial tool demonstrations for small businesses to help them to understand what their risks are when it comes to foreign control and influence,” Farooq Mitha, director of the DoD Office of Small Business Programs said. The strategy was designed to make it easier for small business to “do business with us, reduce barriers to entry, create some more alignment between our small business programs and provide more resources to small companies that are looking to do business with us,” Mitha said.

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