Review – Bills Introduced – 6-9-26

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in session, there were 56 bills introduced. Two of those bills will receive additional coverage in this blog: 

HR 9229 To protect seaports from unmanned aircraft systems, and for other purposes. Patronis, Jimmy [Rep.-R-FL-1] 

HR 9232 To grant authority to use counter-unmanned aircraft system technologies to private owners of critical infrastructure facilities, and for other purposes. Van Epps, Matt [Rep.-R-TN-7] 

For more information on these bills, including legislative history for similar bills in the 118th Congress, as well as a mention-in-passing of a bill to ban entry into the United States of Chinese vehicles, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/bills-introduced-6-9-26 - subscription required. 

House Rules Committee Announces 2 Spending Bills for Week after Next

Earlier this week Rep Foxx (R,NC), Chair of the House Rules Committee, announced amendment submission deadlines (here and here respectively) for HR 8595, the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027, and HR 9022, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027. Proposed amendments for both bills would be required to be submitted by June 16th, 2026, with a potential rule hearing during the week of June 22nd. 

Typically, these amendment notices are set for the current week with the rule hearing to be conducted the following week. This exception is apparently due to next week being a District Work Week. 

Review – 3 Advisories Published – 6-9-26

Today, CISA’s NCCIC-ICS published three control system security advisories for products from Schneider and Siemens.  

NOTE: CISA has not yet sent out their normal email listing the advisories and updates, so I have to rely on the CISA ICS Advisories page, but that page has not listed any updates for a while now, even when they are published. 

Advisories  

Schneider Advisory #1 - This advisory discusses the BlastRadius.Fail vulnerability. 

Schneider Advisory #2 - This advisory describes an insecure default initialization of resource vulnerability in the Schneider Electric EcoStruxure Panel Server. 

NOTE: I briefly discussed the vulnerability on May 16th, 2026. 

Siemens Advisory - This advisory describes two vulnerabilities in KACO Blueplanet Inverters. 

NOTE: I briefly discussed these vulnerabilities on May 16th, 2026. 

For more information on these advisories, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/3-advisories-published-6-9-26 - subscription required. 

CISA Adds Arista Vulnerability to KEV Catalog – 6-9-26

Today, CISA announced that it had added an incomplete comparison with missing factors vulnerability in the Arista EOS to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability was previously disclosed by Arista and was originally reported by Scott Christiansen, Lukas Peitz, Rich Compton, and Jonathan Davis at Comcast. In version 1.1 (May 6th) of their advisory, Arista reported that the vulnerability had been reported as being exploited in the wild. Arista provides settings to mitigate the vulnerability; no software fix is planned. 

CISA is requiring federal agencies to apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. A deadline of June 23rd, 2026, has been set. 

Review - S 4077 Introduced – DOD Trucking Security

Back in March, Sen Cotton (R,AR) introduced S 4077, the Trucking Security and CCP Disclosure Act of 2026. The bill would require DOD to only use motor carriers that have been certified not be owned or controlled by, and does not have significant business relationships with, any entity identified on the most recent list of Chinese military companies. It would also require the DOT’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to develop and maintain a ‘Secure Defense Freight Carrier Registry’. No new funding is authorized by this legislation. 

The bill would add §2631b, Certification regarding affiliations with Chinese military companies for surface transportation contracts, to 10 USC Chapter 157. It would also add Chapter 140, Secure Defense Freight Carrier Registry, to 49 USC Subtitle IV. 

This bill is a companion measure to HR 7924, that was introduced by Rep Stefanik (R,NY) in March 2026. No action has been taken on that bill. 

Moving Forward  

Cotton is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to which this bill was assigned for consideration. This means that there may be sufficient influence to see the bill considered by the Committee. I see nothing in this bill that would engender organized opposition in that Committee. 

According to a press release from Stefanik’s office, she and Cotton are working to include the language from this bill in the upcoming FY 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. 

Commentary  

This bill was only assigned to the Senate Armed Services Committee for consideration. This is odd since it adds a new Chapter to 49 USC. It would seem to me that the bill should have also been assigned to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee for coverage of Section 3 of the bill. 

For more information on the provisions of this bill, as well as additional commentary, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/s-4077-introduced-dod-trucking-security - subscription required. 

Review – Bills Introduced – 6-8-26

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in session, there were 64 bills introduced. None of those bills are expected to receive additional coverage here. 

Space Geek Legislation 

I would like to mention one bill under my limited Space Geek coverage in this blog: 

HR 9193 To advance NASA's use of nuclear propulsion and power systems for deep space exploration, and for other purposes. Kennedy, Mike [Rep.-R-UT-3] 

For more information on these bills, including legislative history for similar bills in the 118th Congress, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/bills-introduced-6-8-26 - subscription required.