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IT Subcommittee to Be One of Six New House Oversight Panels Next Congress

Six new subcommittees, including the Information Technology Subcommittee, will be added to the House Oversight Committee in the next Congress, incoming committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said in a news release Wednesday. Rep.-elect Will Hurd, R-Texas, will chair the IT…

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subcommittee, the release said. Hurd is a former Central Intelligence Agency official, according to his website. “Each of the incoming Chairs brings valuable knowledge and experience to the subcommittees they have been selected to lead and I am grateful for their commitment to bringing vigorous oversight to the federal government,” Chaffetz said in the release. The IT subcommittee will focus on “IT procurement, Cybersecurity, IT infrastructure, emerging technologies, and intellectual property, among other issues,” the release said.