Language calling for a national cyber director within the Executive Office of the President is included in a final 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House will soon vote on, according to Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I.
In an interview with Nextgov, Langevin said the House will vote next week on the $8.4 billion defense bill that is chock full of cybersecurity provisions that will affect all agencies. The Senate on Wednesday also agreed to proceed on the bill, which the chair and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee announced has achieved bicameral agreement.
Members of both chambers have been in conference to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the bill, which both passed with veto-proof majorities. Members of Congress are committed to moving forward on a final conference report despite renewed threats from President Trump who has insisted the defense bill should remove liability protections in place for social media companies.
“I don’t think the president wants to be in the position ultimately of vetoing,” the crucial national security provisions included in the NDAA, Langevin, chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on intelligence and emerging threats and capabilities, said.
The call for a national cyber director is seen by much of the cybersecurity community as one such provision. But where the House-passed bill included the provision, the Senate-passed version only called for a report o ..
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