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Congress

Rogers, Ruppersberger Reintroduce Cyber Information Sharing Bill

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

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The chairman and ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee yesterday reintroduced legislation that would provide liability protections to American businesses to enable them to share cyber threat information with each other and with the intelligence community on a voluntary basis. The Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act (H.R. 3523), or CISPA, passed the House last year by a vote of 248-168, although the Obama administration opposed the measure. The bill also allows the intelligence community to pass classified cyber…

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Army

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Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

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