Cyber Watch: Ops Briefing

House Armed Services Committee members next week will be able to attend the first quarterly "cyber operations briefing," intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) reminded his colleagues at a hearing yesterday.

The upcoming meeting "is similar to the counterterrorism quarterly updates that we have been receiving," Thornberry said. "This is a new provision in the Defense Authorization Act, and we'll have that classified briefing next week."

In his opening statement, subcommittee Ranking Member James Langevin (D-RI) noted:

DOD cyber operations are quite literally a growth business, and it's one of the rare portions of the DOD that will be growing indefinitely into the future, and there have been significant developments in just one year since our last posture hearing.

View yesterday's prepared testimony of U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alezander, Pentagon Deputy Chief Management Officer Elizabeth McGrath and Chief Information Officer Teri Takai.