The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have completed their markups of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, and the Senate version lays out major reforms to cyber, innovation, IT management and information operations.
The two versions differ somewhat on topline numbers, with the House calling for $631.5 billion in base defense funding with another $65 billion in war funding, and the Senate clocking in at $640 billion and $60 billion respectively.
Those differences are relatively trivial compared to Senate proposals such as splitting of some of the CIO’s responsibilities — handing business functions to the chief management officer and giving much of the cyber portfolio to a new chief information warfare officer position.
