The Department of Transportation, at the forefront of federal efforts to modernize U.S. infrastructure, aims to ensure cybersecurity is embedded in a wave of historic investments funded through DoT under the bipartisan infrastructure law, but being implemented largely at the state and local levels.

Cybersecurity is a top priority for DoT Chief Information Officer Cordell Schachter, he said in a recent interview on the sidelines of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology’s spring conference in Arlington, VA…

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes tens of billions of dollars for investments in roads and bridges, railways, public transit systems, and electric vehicle infrastructure, among other investments…

Meanwhile, the Biden administration’s recently issued national cyber strategy makes defending critical infrastructure from digital threats a major priority. Critical infrastructure includes broad swaths of the nation’s transportation systems.