Martin Matishak
The five-term Nebraska Republican got the gavel last year, just as policymakers were readying to take up their annual defense policy bill. Despite the late start, and a thin congressional calendar, the final measure included several cybersecurity provisions.
Bacon, who served as an Air Force colonel and one-star general alongside now U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency chief Timothy Haugh, has further settled into the role.
Last month he sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, pressing him on the agency’s response to the China-linked Salt Typhoon hacking campaign. The missive — not previously reported — also asked details on the effort to revamp Cyber Command, known as “Cyber Command 2.0.”
Recorded Future News: What are your priorities for the cyber and innovation subcommittee?
Don Bacon: China is eating our box lunch right now. We caught them trying to get into our infrastructure and now we had this latest news that they're in our cell phone networks — probably still are.
I want to push the attitude that we’ve got to regain deterrence, and we're going to do that through Cyber Command. I want to get us to be more aggressive and make China pay a price for what they're doing right now.
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