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• Author: Magnuson, Stew

Pentagon Shifts CMMC's Center of Gravity

* Responsibility for administering the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program has shifted from the office of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment to the Defense Department's chief information officer, a position currently held by John Sherman.

"The CMMC team...will be aligned under the deputy CIO for cybersecurity to increase the program's integration with other defense industrial base cybersecurity programs," Sherman said in a statement.

The A&S office's Stacy Bostjanick, the current CMMC point-person, will now answer to Sherman, who promises to move out quickly on the rulemaking process after the release of CMMC 2.0, the second version of the mandatory cybersecurity compliance program.

For more on CMMC 2.0, see page 12.

Navy Wants 'Interchangeable' Allies

* The Navy wants to operate with allies and partners the same way it operates with the other U.S. military services. Working side-by-side with the U.S. Navy should be the norm, said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday.

"Where we really want to go beyond interoperability is interchangeability," he said at the Surface Navy Association's annual confab.

He pointed to last year when the French navy's carrier strike group took command of U.S. Task Force 50.

"They were filling a gap that we couldn't fill," he said. "That's exactly what our goal ought to be...