With both the House and Senate back in Washington this week
after their St. Patrick’s Day recess the budget is the major hearing topic.
There will also be three hearings that are related to cybersecurity.
Budget
The list below shows hearings that relate to topics covered
in this blog. Where ‘Subcommittee’ is noted this refers to a subcommittee of
the relevant appropriations committee. There is an interesting
article on TheHill.com describing the current budget process.
• House Armed Services Committee – 2020
NDAA Budget Request
• House Energy and Water
Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee - DOE
• House Homeland Security
Subcommittee – Coast
Guard
• House Budget Committee - DOD
• House Defense Subcommittee – NSA
and Cyber Command
• Senate Transportation, Housing
and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee – DOT
Cybersecurity Hearings
On Tuesday the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity of the Senate
Armed Services Committee will hold a
hearing on “Cybersecurity Responsibilities of the Defense Industrial Base”.
The witness list includes:
• William A. LaPlante, MITRE
National Security Sector;
• John Luddy, Aerospace Industries
Association;
• Christopher Peters, The Lucrum
Group; and
• Michael P. MacKay, Progeny
Systems Corporation
The supply chain security topic will almost certainly be raised.
Industrial control system security issues is a more remotely possible topic that
could arise.
On Wednesday the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Committee will hold a markup
hearing that will include two cyber related bills:
• S 771 - Small Business Cyber
Training Act; and
• S 772 - SBA Cyber Awareness Act.
Neither of these bills has been published yet, so I am not
entirely sure that either really deal with cybersecurity issues, much less ICS
cybersecurity.
On Wednesday the Aviation and Space Subcommittee of the Senate
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will hold a
hearing looking at “The State of Airline Safety: Federal Oversight of
Commercial Aviation”. The witness list includes:
• Robert Sumwalt, National
Transportation Safety Board;
• Calvin Scovel, Department of
Transportation; and
• Daniel Elwell, Federal Aviation
Administration
Since this hearing is focusing on the Boeing 737 Max fiasco,
control system issues are likely to be discussed. It is unlikely that
cybersecurity issues related to those systems will be included in the
discussion, but we can always hope.
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