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Industry Groups Ask Lawmakers to Remove Core Cybersecurity Provisions from NDAA

NextGov: If it were up to the Information Technology Industry Council, the next National Defense Authorization Act would exclude bipartisan provisions for the government to establish intelligence sharing and threat hunting programs in collaboration with the private sector.

“ARWG urges conferees to not include Sections 1634 and 1637 of the House bill and Sections 1631, 1632, 1635, and 3131 of the Senate legislation, as passed by the House or Senate, respectively, in the final NDAA,” reads a Sept. 24 letter ITI sent to the chair and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees along with a number of other groups collectively referred to as the Acquisition Reform Working Group.

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