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House Committee Passes Counter UAS, Cyber, Border Security Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 13th, 2018

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House Committee Passes Counter UAS, Cyber, Border Security Bills

In likely its last markup this year, the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday unanimously approved five bills dealing with cyber and border security and countering drones, sending them to the House for consideration.One bill, the Hack the Department of Homeland Security Act of 2017 (S. 1281), passed the Senate earlier this year. The legislation would create a bug bounty pilot program within the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer to minimize cyber security vulnerabilities by enabling approved individuals,…

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