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House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies and Information Systems is a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee in the United States House of Representatives. It was created for the 117th United States Congress. [1]
The Chair of the subcommittee is Republican Don Bacon of Nebraska, and the Ranking Member is Democrat Ro Khanna of California.
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