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House Passes Two DHS Cybersecurity Technology Bills

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

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House Passes Two DHS Cybersecurity Technology Bills

Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), member of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation panel

Two cybersecurity bills covering the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) written by Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) were passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday.The Support for Rapid Innovation Act of 2017 (H.R. 239) amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct DHS’ Under Secretary for Science and Technology to support research, development, testing, evaluation, and transition of cybersecurity technologies, the bill summary says.The second bill, the Leveraging Emerging Technologies Act of 2017 (H.R. 240), encourages DHS to engage…

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