:

Homeland Security

Cyber Incident Reporting Provision Excluded From Defense Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021

SHARE:

Cyber Incident Reporting Provision Excluded From Defense Bill

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

Bipartisan legislation requiring critical infrastructure entities to report cyber incidents affecting their networks to the federal government was excluded from a final defense authorization bill. Similar cyber incident reporting bills were introduced in the House and Senate this year and would have required owners and operators of critical infrastructures to report cyber incidents within 72 hours of an attack being discovered. Momentum for mandatory cyber incident reporting gathered steam in the wake of a ransomware attack in May against the…

Congress

HASC’s Final FY ‘27 NDAA Expands Systems Eligible For Multi-Years, Includes LTAMDS, IBCS, ARRW

House defense authorizers added a measure to their version of the next defense policy bill that would expand the list of weapons platforms eligible for multi-year contracts, to include the […]

Congress

HASC Bill Would Allow Air Force To Buy More Than 267 F-15EXs

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill would allow the Air Force to buy more than 267 F-15EX fighters by Boeing [BA] and would extend the […]

Budget

Defense Bill Tries To Block Foreign Shipbuilding, Adds $1 Billion For Second DDG

The final version of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill included two amendments pushed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) that restrict procuring Navy warships […]

Congress

Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

As the Pentagon looks to refill inventories of weapons used in Iran and elsewhere, replacements may not be one for one but instead mark a new portfolio mix, according to […]