Committee Hearings – Week of 11-27-23

This week the House and Senate return from their Thanksgiving recess. There is a relatively light hearing schedule, with only two hearings of potential interest here. First an NDAA conference committee hearing and second a cybersecurity hearing.

NDAA Hearing

Listed on the Senate hearing schedule page, the conference committee on HR 2670 will meet on Wednesday. No official listing of what is scheduled, but Wired.com is reporting:

“The House and Senate passed their own versions [HR 2670 and S 2226, both removed from paywall] of the NDAA this summer, and a conference of top lawmakers had been tasked with consolidating the two bills. Currently, however, only a few top lawmakers know what the bill’s final text will say. The remaining conferees expect to receive a copy of the NDAA as early as Wednesday, but may have less than a day to parse what is typically over 1,000 pages of text. Party leaders will expect at least half of the conference to sign off on the bill quickly and send it to the House and Senate floor for a vote.”

Cybersecurity

On Wednesday the Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee will hold a hearing on “Safeguarding the Federal Software Supply Chain”. The witness list includes:

• Jamil Jaffer, George Mason University,

• James Lewis, Center for Strategic & International Studies, and

• Roger Waldron, The Coalition for Government Procurement

According to the Committee memo on the hearing, this will focus solely on IT cybersecurity supply chain issues.