If it were up to the Information Technology Industry Council, the next National Defense Authorization Act would exclude bipartisan provisions for the government to establish intelligence sharing and threat hunting programs in collaboration with the private sector.
“ARWG urges conferees to not include Sections 1634 and 1637 of the House bill and Sections 1631, 1632, 1635, and 3131 of the Senate legislation, as passed by the House or Senate, respectively, in the final NDAA,” reads a Sept. 24 letter ITI sent to the chair and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees along with a number of other groups collectively referred to as the Acquisition Reform Working Group.
ARWG includes the American Council of Engineering Companies, Associated General Contractors of America, Computing Technology Industry Association, National Defense Industrial Association, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.
The sections of the House- and Senate-passed versions of the NDAA identified by the groups are based on recommendations from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a congressionally appointed group that includes Republican, Democrat and Independent lawmakers as well as key members of the administration and private sector leaders. Its recommendations earlier this year promised a consensus path forward for cybersecurity policy that appears to be fracturing in advance of the commission’s goal of including as many of them as possible in the annual defense bill.
Core to the Solarium Commission’s approach is increased collaboration between the public and private sectors. But a White House veto threat issued in response to the House bill said provisions calling for the government to share information with the private sector didn’t sufficiently consider the sensitive nature of such intelligence, and now the ind ..
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