On this week’s Technology Report, Mark Montgomery, a retired US Navy rear admiral who is the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a Cyber Solarium 2.0 executive director, discusses President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence, next steps to improve its efficacy, the importance of designating the nation’s cloud computing ecosystem as critical national infrastructure, the budget outlook for cyber investment especially at law enforcement agencies like the FBI, takeaways from the recent Lockbit ransomware attack on Boeing, progress on bolstering the US Indo-Pacific Command’s capabilities to better deter China and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown’s statement that Beijing is unlikely to use force to unify with Taiwan with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
