Quick Hits

*** Washington Technology reports the launch day of the General Services Administration's new integrated System for Award Management website did not go well.

*** A bipartisan bug bounty provision sponsored by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and three colleagues would sets up a vulnerability disclosure program at the U.S. Department of State. The measure was included in the, State Department Authorization Act, passed last week in the House of Representatives.

*** At a Senate hearing last week, Richard Kidd, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for environment and energy resilience said that the Defense Department's CIO has a key role to play in making sure that DOD's facility related control systems, "are defensible, survivable, and resilient to operate and sustain critical functions in a cyber- contested environment."

*** Nick Clegg, the vice president of global affairs at Facebook and the former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, is backing the creation of a new "digital regulator" to do for the online space what the Federal Communications Commission does with telecom and media.