[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 88 (Monday, June 6, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3440-S3441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4392. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1641. TRAINING FOR MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES ON CYBER 
                   SKILLS FOR THE PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL CONTROL 
                   SYSTEMS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop and 
     implement a program of training for members of the Armed 
     forces on cyber skills for the protection of industrial 
     control systems that utilizes industrial control system cyber 
     assessment expertise and training capabilities within the 
     Department of Defense. The program of training shall include 
     applied hands on training from Department units currently 
     performing industrial control systems assessments. Such 
     training shall be designed to enable members receiving such 
     training to carry out activities to

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     protect such systems from cyber attacks of significant 
     consequence in situations where such authority already 
     exists.
       (b) Consultation.--The Secretary of Defense shall consult 
     with, and as appropriate leverage the expertise and 
     capabilities of the Department of Homeland Security and the 
     Department of Energy national laboratories, and institutions 
     of higher education and other appropriate organizations and 
     entities in the private sector in carrying out the program.
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