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...Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, points out that Obama's nominee will need political skills to deal with the many voices that will want to be heard on cybersecurity, including many government departments - the Pentagon, various intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, among others - and private-sector bodies. "There's a lot of rice in this particular rice bowl," Beckstrom says. He knows from personal experience how difficult that can be: earlier this year, he quit as Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in March, citing interdepartmental politics...
...review has drawn to a close, a turf war has broken out in Washington over which agency should be put in charge of cybersecurity - and get the billions of dollars of federal money that comes with it. Last month, Rod Beckstrom quit as director of the National Cybersecurity Center, citing turf battles between the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees the center) and the National Security Agency. His take on the sudden alarm bells over the power grid's cybersecurity? It's a power grab: a competition between two government agencies to become the main player in cybersecurity...
Died. Major Arthur W. Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...
That is why poets such as Yevtushenko "have such mass audiences," explained Lars Beckstrom, a member of the International Seminar...
Reading a recent line of poetry, "Why don't we gather in front of life the way we gather in front of a burning house?" Lars Beckstrom, poet and editor of Och und Bild, suggested that the meaninglessness of today's language may result from the evident disaffection with life...