House Homeland Security Committee To Return to DHS Cybersecurity Division Reorganization
The House Homeland Security Committee’s first cybersecurity priority for 2016 will be to continue examining possible legislation related to the Department of Homeland Security’s planned restructuring of its National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), which leads much of the department’s…
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cybersecurity work, a committee aide told us Friday. House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, alluded in a blog post last week to plans for an ambitious 2016 cybersecurity agenda beyond conducting oversight of implementation of the Cybersecurity Act as enacted in the FY 2016 omnibus spending bill (see 1601270044). House Homeland Security began looking last year at DHS' plans for reorganizing NPPD and renaming it the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection division (see 1509170038). McCaul eventually paused work on legislation to authorize the NPPD reorganization amid lawmakers’ questions about the reorganization and the increased focus on conference negotiations on information sharing legislation that resulted in the Cybersecurity Act, an industry lobbyist told us. House Homeland Security plans to meet with DHS officials in the coming weeks and anticipates filing a bill on NPPD reorganization at some point this spring, a committee aide said.