First on Pro: OPM Responds on Cyber
The Office of Personnel Management has responded to a letter from the New Democrat Coalition about training and hiring cyber personnel, a spokesperson for the centrist group told MC Thursday night. However, the June 14 response from OPM was “more of an acknowledgement of the first letter than it was a proposal to address the actual concerns at play,” the spokesperson said. The reply to Reps. Kathleen Rice, Derek Kilmer and Josh Gottheimer — two of whom pressed OPM for a response earlier this month — included “helpful, relevant fact sheets and memos but those are all things that — unsurprisingly — we had researched” before sending the original missive about cybersecurity hiring at the federal level and “didn’t give us any sort of take on how you actually address those points,” according to the spokesperson. As a result, the group is now pushing for a sit-down meeting with the federal agency. While a member-level meeting would be “optimal,” thus far OPM has only signaled a willingness to convene one at the staff level, the spokesperson said. “Anything would be helpful,” the spokesperson added. “We’re wanting to solve this problem.”
By: Tim Starks
Source: Politico Morning Cybersecurity