The Pentagon Is Taking Bids for the Digital Future of Defense Contracting

  • Cyber Command plans to award work valued at up to $460 million
  • Cybersecurity spending rises as other budgets decline

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter delivers remarks to an audience of U.S. Cyber Command troops and National Security Agency employees while visiting the NSA and command headquarters on March 13, 2015 in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The future of war-fighting won’t be the only thing on display when U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter travels Wednesday to Fort Meade for a briefing at Cyber Command.

The digital future of defense contracting also will be evident.