The Committee’s investigation totaled more than three years of investigative activity, more than 200 witness interviews, and more than a million pages of reviewed documents. All five volumes total more than 1300 pages.

You can read “Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities” here.

Read the Senate Intelligence Committee’s previous reports:

• “Volume I: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure”
• “Volume II: Russia’s Use of Social Media”
• “Volume III: U.S. Government Response to Russian Activities”
• “Volume IV: Review of the Intelligence Community Assessment”
• Additional declassifications of “Volume IV: Review of Intelligence Community Assessment”

Source: SSCI

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“The IAA for Fiscal Year 2021 represents the Senate Intelligence Committee’s strong, bipartisan effort to give our Intelligence Community the resources, authorities, and personnel to protect America’s national security while increasing government efficiency,” Acting Chairman Marco Rubio said. “As a nation, we face ever-expanding threats from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Our legislation is vital to the Intelligence Community, and it provides the men and women who serve our nation the tools they need to keep our country safe. At the same time, our bill represents comprehensive Congressional oversight, ensuring that these tools are executed responsibly and cost-effectively.”

“This bipartisan intelligence authorization bill ensures that the women and men of our intelligence agencies have the resources they need to do their jobs,” said Vice Chairman Mark Warner. “This bill takes key steps to improve our national security, including investments in 5G technology, reforms to our security clearance process, and important protections for whistleblowers to report wrongdoing within the IC.”

The IAA for Fiscal Year 2021 ensures that the Intelligence Community can continue its critical work for our country while Congress continues its oversight, including in the following key areas:

• Confronting our adversaries’ attempts to compromise telecommunications and cybersecurity technology;
• Development and deployment of secure 5G networks based in open-standards to compete with our adversaries;
• Identifying corruption, influence operations, and information suppression by the Chinese government, in particular in this critical time for the people of Hong Kong;
• Uncovering Russian and Eastern European oligarchs’ corruption and illegal activities;
• Protecting against foreign influence threats and election interference on social media platforms;
• Creating Intelligence Community-wide policies to facilitate sharing cleared contractor information with private companies to enhance the effectiveness of insider threat programs;
• Requiring the publication of guidelines for granting, denying, or revoking a security clearance and preventing the revocation or denial of a clearance for reasons of discrimination, political beliefs, or retaliation; and
• Advancing Intelligence Community hiring flexibilities, student loan repayment programs, and child care for IC personnel.

Source: U.S. Senate

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The purpose of this sources sought notice is to gain knowledge of potential qualified industry sources for providing cyber security infrastructure support services to the United States Senate, Office of the Sergeant at Arms (Senate or SAA). The Office of the CIO within the SAA has a broad range of responsibilities that includes providing a secure cyber environment in which to carry out Senate business. The current approach for the delivery of these cyber security infrastructure support services incorporates the use of the Senate’s Security Operations Centers (SOCs) staffed by Contractor and Senate personnel using Senate furnished equipment (SFE) and systems (Current Approach).

The Senate is considering two options for the procurement of cybersecurity support services:

Option A

Procure all of the cyber security support services using the Current Approach which employs a Contractor providing the support services listed under the Mandatory Service Capabilities section and the Optional Tasks section below and the personnel located in Senate premises to manage and operate the Senate’s Security Operations Centers (SOCs) using Senate furnished equipment (SFE) and cyber security systems together with Senate personnel;

Option B

Procure some of the cyber security support services using the Current Approach as described in Option A with the Contractor providing the support services listed under Mandatory Service Capabilities section and the Optional Tasks section below; and the remaining services delivered as a structured Managed Security Service (MSS) offering with the appropriate Service Level Agreements from the Contractor’s premises. The Senate’s primary candidates for services to be provided as an MSS are noted with a double asterisks (**) below. For the services provided as an MSS, the Senate must maintain sole custody of its data. The Senate will require access to alert metadata to respond to incidents generated by internal sources.

The key functional areas under consideration include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) Program Management, Quality Assurance Management, and SOC Contractor Supervision

(2) Network Security Monitoring / Analysis and Security Incident Reporting

(3) Cyber Threat Analysis

(4) Security Research and Engineering

(5) SOC Automation & Monitoring Systems

(6) Vulnerability Analysis

(7) SOC IT Engineering, Operations & Maintenance

(8) Endpoint Security Infrastructure Support

All qualified sources should respond to this Market Survey – Sources Sought by submitting an information package in accordance with the instructions provided. Vendors responding to this notice and deemed qualified by the SAA may be requested to submit a proposal in response to a solicitation. Only firms deemed qualified by the Senate will be considered. If suitable responses to this notice are received from one or more qualified sources, the SAA anticipates release of a solicitation during the first quarter of fiscal year 2015-16.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Responses to this Market Survey-Sources Sought request are due to the POC no later than January 16, 2015, at Noon EST and shall be submitted electronically via email only, to the attention of Cora Carag at Acquisitions2012@saa.senate.gov. The subject line of the email message shall be: SSN 2015-S-022 Cyber Security Services. No other method of transmittal will be accepted. The response shall not exceed twenty-five pages. Unnecessarily elaborate submissions are discouraged. Pages over the page limitation may be discarded. Access by the SAA to information in any files attached to the response is the responsibility of the submitting party. Neither the SAA nor the Senate is responsible for any failure to access vendor’s information.

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