DHS published a notice in today’s Federal Register (77 FR 59627)
announcing that the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) will be holding a
public teleconference on October 3rd, 2012. The HSAC will discuss
the report of the Cyber Skills Task Force during this teleconference.
Late Notice
The Federal Advisory Committee Act requires 15-days notice
for these types of meetings. The announcement justifies the short notice by
stating that:
“This notice of the teleconference meeting
of the HSAC is published in the Federal Register with less than 15 days' due to
the complexity of the issue, the task force was not able to complete its report
within this aggressive time line in time for deliver to the HSAC at its
September 24-25 meeting. Waiting for the full 15 day notice period to conduct
the teleconference will delay the discussion of the report to a period of time
that will prevent the Secretary from meeting with the HSAC to review the report
due to her travel schedule.”
Interestingly there was no mention of this report in the notice
for the meeting earlier this week, so it would seem that the HSAC knew back
on September 7th that this teleconference would be required. Even
more interesting is the fact that there is no mention of a Cyber Skills Task
Force on the HSAC web
site. Nor was there mention of this task force in the minutes of the last two
meetings of the HSAC.
Public Participation
The public will be allowed to participate in the
teleconference in the ‘listen-only’ mode. People wishing to so participate must
register with the HSAC via email at HSAC@dhs.gov
or via phone at (202) 447-3135. Copies of the task force report will be
provided to registrants at the time of registration. Written comments on the
topic may be posted to the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.Regulations.gov; Docket # DHS-2012-0064)
though that docket had not yet been established as of 6:00 am EDT this morning.
Both registration and the submission of written comments must be accomplished
by 5:00 pm EDT on September 30th (please note that that is this
Sunday and I would be very surprised if anyone will be answering the phones at
HSAC on Saturday or Sunday).
Irreverent Question
There is nothing in this notice that would so indicate, but
I wonder… Would this Cyber Skills Task Force report be in anyway linked to the
much rumored ‘Cybersecurity Executive Order’ that is apparently imminent?
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