HR 1049 Introduced – DOD Cybersecurity Database

Last week Rep. Langevin (D,RI) introduced HR 1049, the Department of Defense Emergency Response Capabilities Database Enhancement Act of 2017. This is a companion bill to S 307; that is an identical bill introduced to allow for simultaneous action by both houses of Congress instead of serial consideration.

Langevin is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the committee to which this bill was referred for consideration. This means that it is possible that he could have enough influence to have this bill considered in committee. As I mentioned with S 307, there is nothing in this bill which should engender significant opposition.

Bills Introduced – 02-14-17

Yesterday, with both the House and Senate in session, fifty bills were introduced in Congress. Of those two may be of specific interest to readers of this blog:

HR 1030 To direct the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a study on cyber attack standards of measurement. Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]

HR 1049 To enhance the database of emergency response capabilities of the Department of Defense. Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]

HR 1030 is almost certainly a repeat of HR 2708 that was introduced in the 114^th Congress and died in committee. This will probably suffer the same fate.

HR 1049 is probably going to be a companion bill to S 307 that was introduced earlier this month in the Senate; the official text is still not available on S 307, but there is a draft available. Interesting post here on S 307.