Review – Committee Hearings – Week of 4-12-26

 With both the House and Senate returning to Washington from their two-week Easter Recess, there is a surprisingly lite hearing schedule. The President’s FY 2027 Budget Request dropped a week ago, so there will be lots of hearings surrounding that proposed spending plan. Other than that there is just one markup hearing of interest here and that is in the Senate. 

Budget Hearings  

The list below is hardly exhaustive, but it does reflect the scheduled hearings of interest here. 

House 

Wednesday - The President's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request, 

Wednesday – Budget Hearing - Department of Energy, 

Thursday - The Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy Budget, and 

Thursday - Budget Hearing – Department of Homeland Security: CISA, TSA, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Secret Service, and FEMA. 

Senate 

Thursday - The President's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Proposal, 

Markup Hearing  

On Tuesday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will reconvene a business meeting to consider nine aviation and space related bills. Bills of specific interest there are: 

S 1962, the Secure Space Act of 2025, and 

S 3404, the Satellite Cybersecurity Act of 2025. 

For more information on these hearings, including a brief look at the floor schedules for House and Senate, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/committee-hearings-week-of-4-12-26 - subscription required. 

Review - Public ICS Disclosures – Week of 4-4-26 – Part 2

 For Part 2 we have five additional vendor disclosures from Philips, Siemens, TP-Link (2), and WAGO. There are also two vendor updates from Mitsubishi. There are three researcher reports for products from NI. Finally, we have an exploit for products from ForitGuard. 

Advisories  

Philips Advisory - Philips published an advisory that discusses the ChipSoft ransomware issue. 

Siemens Advisory - Siemens published a bulletin that discuses ‘Increasing Cyber Threats to Industrial Control Systems’. 

TP-Link Advisory #1 - TP-Link published an advisory that describes a previously disclosed authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability (listed in CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog) in legacy TP-Link router and access point products. 

TP-Link Advisory #2 - TP-Link published an advisory that describes five vulnerabilities in their AX3000 Dual-Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 router. 

WAGO Advisory - CERT-VDE published an advisory that describes a code injection vulnerability in the Web-based management function in multiple WAGO products. 

Updates  

Mitsubishi Update #1 - Mitsubishi published an update for their Information Tampering advisory that was originally published on August 5th, 2025, and most recently updated on September 18th, 2025. 

Mitsubishi Update #2 - Mitsubishi published an update for their Information Tampering advisory that was originally published on May 15th, 2025, and most recently updated on January 8th, 2026. 

Researcher Reports  

NI Reports - Michael Heinzl published three reports about individual vulnerabilities in the LabVIEW product from NI. 

NOTE: I mentioned the associated NI advisory in passing yesterday. 

Exploits  

FortiGuard Exploit - Mohammed Idrees Banyamer published an exploit for a relative path traversal vulnerability in the FortiGuard FortiWeb product. 

For more information on these disclosures, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/193961834/share-center - subscription required. 

Review - HR 8187 Introduced – Lunar Outpost

 Earlier this month, Rep Self (R,TX) introduced HR 8187. The bill would amend 51 USC 70505 to require NASA to establish ‘initial elements' of a Lunar Outpost by December 31st, 2030. No new funding is provided in the legislation. 

Moving Forward  

Self is a member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee to which this bill was assigned for consideration. According to a press release from Self’s office:  

“The bill, which amends title 51 of the United States Code, was originally introduced as an amendment and passed committee on February 4, 2026, as part of the NASA Reauthorization Act [HR 7273]. Congressman Self introduced this standalone bill the morning after the historic Artemis II launch, the first crewed mission to lunar orbit in over fifty years.” 

The reported version of HR 7273 has not yet been published. It is not too unusual for an accepted amendment to a bill to be offered as a standalone measure. This recognizes the legislative realities that the language approved in committee is not necessarily going to make it to the President’s desk in the final bill, if that larger bill even passes. Still this bill is unlikely to get consideration in Committee while HR 7273 is still wending its way through the legislative process. 

For more information on the provisions of this bill, as well as a brief discussion of the FY 2027 budget request, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-8187-introduced-lunar-outpost - subscription required.