House and Senate authorizers want to provide the head of U.S. Cyber Command with limited acquisition authority enabling the commander to spend up to $75 million each year through fiscal year 2021. The agreed-upon FY-16 defense authorization bill that came out of conference last week notes that the conferees "believe the commander of CYBERCOM should utilize this limited acquisition authority to fulfill cyber operations-peculiar and cyber capability-peculiar requirements the services are unable to meet to ensure the Department of Defense...
