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Round-Up for the Week of June 17-21, 2017
The Federal Communications Commission's Incentive Auction Task Force and the Media and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus identify each station subject to a winning reverse auction bid in the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction for which an incentive payment is ready to be paid. FCC staff has directed the US Treasury to make incentive payments for each station listed in the attachment to this Public Notice, which includes every station subject to a winning bid in the reverse auction that has provided sufficient banking information to facilitate payment. Subsequent public notice(s) will announce when FCC staff has directed the US Treasury to make incentive payments for any additional station(s) subject to a winning bid that subsequently provide sufficient banking information to facilitate payment.
A bill that would reauthorize the Homeland Security Department for the first time in its nearly 15-year history and beef up cyber protections at ports and airports passed the House of Representatives.
The reauthorization bill, which was long championed by House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) would direct the Transportation Security Administration to conduct a broad assessment of cyber risks to aviation security and to be prepared to vet cyber protections of specific airports and airlines if requested. TSA must also develop one program to enhance cyber threat information sharing across the aviation sector and another to assess cyber vulnerabilities in data stored by TSA PreCheck and other trusted traveler programs, according to the bill, which passed the House 386-41. The bill also formally tasks the US Coast Guard with ensuring cyber protections at US ports and with helping port operators share cyber threat information.
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