Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Governance & Risk Management , Government
Measure Is the Latest Effort to Revive Position Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • December 4, 2020 Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., drafted the proposal.A defense policy bill that Congress plans to vote on later this month now includes a provision that would restore the position of national cyber director at the White House, says Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I.
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This is the latest in a series of efforts to restore the position, which was eliminated by the Trump administration. Langevin had earlier introduced separate legislation, the National Cyber Director Act, calling for the position to be revived (see: Bills Call for State, White House Cybersecurity Coordinators).
The language in that legislation has now been included in the conference report for the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act released Thursday, Langevin said in a statement.
The measure under consideration would create a Senate-confirmed position in the Executive Office of the President with policy and budgetary authority to oversee development and implementation of the national cyber strategy and to coordinate national cyber incident response efforts, according to the statement.
