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Texas Congressman Will Hurd is in San Antonio Tuesday for a briefing on our cities military installations.
Hurd is visiting Joint Base Lackland, Fort Sam Houston and Brooke Army Medical Center. He's traveling with fellow Congressman Mac Thornberry, who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
There have been many goals for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program since the concept was first floated in 2010: encouraging cloud adoption; "do once, use many times" efficiency; and trading check-box compliance for ongoing risk management, to name a few.
Quick turnarounds, however, were never on that list.
Congressman Will Hurd is set to be briefed in San Antonio this week.
And he won’t be in Military City alone. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry will be with him.
The two will spend time at Joint Base San Antonio and Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio for a series of briefings on Monday and Tuesday.
As a city with strong military roots, San Antonio has become an increasingly important part of the national conversation on cybersecurity and military defense. Those issues will be addressed by U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and U.S. Rep Mac Thornberry (R-TX) during a special Breakfast at The Pearl Stable on Tuesday, May 3.
U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry (District 13-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HSAC), will visit Laughlin Air Force Base Monday just days after the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) passed through the HSAC with a 60-2 bipartisan vote.
Thanks to the efforts of 23rd U.S. Congressional District Congressman Will Hurd, Blue Origin and Birth2Work, more than 120 West Texas high school STEM students are visiting the West Texas Launch Site (WTLS)site of Blue Origin rocket launch site near Van Horn.
Thanks to the efforts of 23rd U.S. Congressional District Congressman Will Hurd, Blue Origin and Birth2Work, more than 120 West Texas high school STEM students are visiting the West Texas Launch Site (WTLS)site of Blue Origin rocket launch site near Van Horn.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) plans to send the Senate a number of technology innovation bills that have passed the House. The bills are all part of the Innovation Initiative that seeks to change lawmakers' attitude toward how they function in the digital era.
Congressman Will Hurd speaks in support of the Combating Terrorist Recruiting Act.
“Every day ISIS spreads their lies and propaganda, drawing in naive young Americans,” he said, on the House floor Tuesday.
He said ISIS takes advantage of the internet and social media to attract Americans.
Last December, Juniper Networks announced a malicious code had been placed in its ScreenOS software. Days later, they gave the intelligence community and 12 federal agencies an emergency security patch. But Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) says three agencies, including the Treasury Department, took more than 50 days to fully install it.