potentially enabling key elements of the strategies of an adversary to defeat the Armed Forces of the United States across the spectrum of conflict. (8) According to some estimates, cybersecurity spending in the United States from 2017 to 2021 will exceed $1,000,000,000,000 among the public and private sectors. (9) Even with these large investments in cybersecurity, the United States remains vulnerable to advanced cyber actors like Russia and China. (10) Since 2013, more than 6,000,000 individual data records have been compromised every day through data breaches, with nearly half of these losses occurring in the Government sector. (11) Large expenditures of resources and a protective strategy that relies on firewalls and boundaries that can be breached by a persistent actor are clearly insufficient and completely ignore the supply chain vector. (12) Military weapons systems are not immune to cyber vulnerabilities. (13) An October 2018 Government Accountability Office report found that nearly all weapons systems of the United States have cyber vulnerabilities the scale of which the Department of Defense is just beginning to grapple with . (14) Furthermore, the report stated that despite multiple warnings since the early 1990s, cybersecurity has not been a focus of weapon systems acquisitions . (15) There have been numerous press stories about data breaches and theft of United States sensitive technology that prove that cyber vulnerabilities are real and not theoretical. (16) The Department of Defense will spend more than $1,600,000,000,000 to develop and field its current portfolio of weapons systems. (17) Conducting acquisitions without making security resiliency a key discriminator in capability development and contract award decisions could potentially lead to additional losses of technological advantages of the Armed Forces and negate efforts to improve the capabilities of the Armed Forces to meet the National Defense Strategy. (18) Software, hardware, and services supply chains have proven to be major means