Cyberspace Solarium Co-Chairs: NDAA Marks “Meaningful” Advancements in Cybersecurity

December 15, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), Co-Chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), today released the following statement on the inclusion of several key cybersecurity provisions in the final version of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Once the President signs the bill into law,58 out of theCyberspace Solarium Commission’s 82 recommendationshave now become law– roughly a seventy percent success rate.
“It is critical that the United States continue to improve the cyber resiliency of its armed forces both at home and abroad, and the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act addresses this need with a meaningful provision to assess their ability to remain resilient and reconstitute functions in the case of a cyber emergency. This provision gets the ball rolling on the similar issue of continuity of the economy planning that the nation so desperately needs – a key recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
“The security of our nuclear command, control, and communications mission is existentially important, and the NDAA’s focus on bolstering its cyber resiliency is wise and timely. This is one of the many important provisions of military cyber resiliency that we are proud to see in this year’s defense bill.”
This year’s NDAA includes legislations to establish a pilot program to test the cyber resiliency and reconstitution of military installations in the event of an attack on regional critical infrastructure – a top priority of the CSC and its follow-on Cyber Solarium 2.0 effort.  It also requires the establishment of a team dedicated to improving the cybersecurity of the systems and networks that support the nuclear command, control, and communications mission.
Significant cybersecurity provisions supported by CSC in the2024 National Defense Authorization Actinclude:
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