Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Endangering... -
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Published on: 7/11/2006
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House Resolutions 2889and 145 reinforced NBS's authority over the security civil governmentcomputer systems and networks by enshrining it in public law.National Computer Security Center director Patrick R. Gallagher, Jr.,in a December 22, 1986 letter to Donald C. Latham, the Pentagon'sAssistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications,and Intelligence and the Chairman of the National Telecommunicationsand Information Systems Security Committee (NTISSC), reported thathis staff "provided support for [the] lobbying effort thatsuccessfully blocked HR 2889 from passage by the 99th Congress."