The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to continue having the chief of U.S. Cyber Command also serve as director of the National Security Agency, and seeks to prohibit that relationship from being severed until the Pentagon certifies that doing so would pose no risk to national security. The Senate authorizers' fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill states the Pentagon cannot end the dual-hatted arrangement until the defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff "jointly determine and certify"...
