House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has appointed Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., and former Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., to the recently created Cyberspace Solarium Commission, a 14-member public-private panel charged with developing consensus and actionable strategy to protect and defend the U.S. in cyberspace. Legislation creating the commission was approved as part of the FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Rep. Langevin is a co-chair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee. Murphy was a congressman from 2007 to 2011, and is a former under Secretary of the Army.

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