The Senate-approved fiscal year 2019 defense spending bill identifies cybersecurity investments as crucial to maintaining a U.S. military advantage over foreign adversaries, while encouraging an acceleration of the Pentagon's ongoing efforts to boost the nation's cyber defenses. The legislation asserts that "rapid technological advancement and the commercial availability of increasingly sophisticated capabilities presents challenges to the U.S. military advantage against state and non-state actors alike," according to the Senate Appropriations Committee report accompanying the $675 billion spending plan for the...