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Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., center, and ranking member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., right, conduct the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing titled “Worldwide Threats Assessment,” in Longworth building on March 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The information sharing effort will allow intelligence community agencies to interact with key owners and operators of water, power, internet and telecommunications to coordinate on cyberattacks and digital vulnerabilities. (Getty Images)
The Department of Homeland Security is bringing back a key cybersecurity information sharing effort with critical infrastructure, more than a year after the Trump administration shuttered an…
Sean Cairncross said the idea rather is to collaborate with the private sector in a way that helps the U.S. government take the battle to its adversaries.
Sean Cairncross, as CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrives for a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2025. Noem testified before the Homeland Security Subcommittee about her department’s FY 2026 budget request. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The legislation also includes mandates on election security funding and CISA staff levels, as well as an extension of a state and local cyber grant program.
ANCHOR will restart conversations between government and industry around critical infrastructure security, with some changes around liability and other areas.