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House Approves Amendment For Cyber Pilot Program To Protect Electric Grids

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

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House Approves Amendment For Cyber Pilot Program To Protect Electric Grids

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The House on Tuesday night adopted an amendment that would establish a pilot program aimed at discovering potential cyber security vulnerabilities to the nation’s electric grids and test technologies to protect systems from cyber-attacks. The amendment by Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and co-sponsored by Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) was attached to the Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 3494) that was expected to pass the House Wednesday. The Senate already passed a similar provision in its version of the intelligence bill. “A…

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