Sheila Jackson Lee: “The Jackson Lee amendment will provide the Department of Defense chief privacy officer with the tools it needs to plan…”

“The Jackson Lee amendment will provide the Department of Defense chief privacy officer with the tools it needs to plan and execute updates and changes to the DOD computer networks. In this world of hacking and the importance of securing our infrastructure of cybersecurity, I believe that this amendment will contribute to the improvement of the DOD and protect against cyber attacks. Again, I thank the chairman and ranking member for including my amendment. Mr. Chair, I thank Chairman Thornberry and Ranking Member Smith for their work on this bill and their devotion to the men and women of the Armed Forces. I also thank them for including in En Bloc Amendment #4 the Jackson Lee Amendment (No. 125), which makes an important contribution to the bill by ensuring that changes made to DOD computing systems using software bought and modified for agency operations will not result in the disruption of DOD operations. I would like to offer this amendment in recognition of a great unsung hero of the modern computing age. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper who is one of the first programmers who invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was the visionary who worked to make machine-independent programming languages possible. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper is not very well known outside of the world of computing, but I salute her work in advancing the science advance computing systems while she served as a member of the armed services.…”