Mission
The Cybersecurity Division serves to convene member expertise to collaboratively and proactively understand and develop NDIA perspective on cyber-related law, policy, and regulatory proposals and to educate NDIA members and policymakers regarding these proposals and their emerging requirements.
Objective
The Division’s primary objective is to contribute to U.S. national security by promoting communication and interaction between the industry, government, and military on cybersecurity and cyber defense policy, legislation, requirements, and technology.
The Cybersecurity Division's charter is to facilitate industry, government, and academia interaction in policy, legislative, legal, and technical areas directly related to protecting cyber assets and maintaining access to the cyber domain. Such interaction is intended to promote the development of a secure, resilient, and reliable cyber domain for the United States and its allies and to provide for an exchange of information and views between industry, academia, government, and military representatives. The effective cooperation between these groups is essential to establish and maintain U.S. superiority in the cyber domain.
The Division’s specific objectives include:
- Advocating for national policies that leverage private-sector and defense industry cyber capabilities
- Building public-private partnerships, which enhance information exchange and mutual understanding
- Supporting education initiatives to increase industry and government awareness of cyber threats and technology
- Coordinating members’ response to proposed legislation affecting the defense industrial base
- Performing systems engineering and related technical work to help advance the state of the art in secure system
Topics: Cyber, Cybersecurity