[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5146]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 919. Mr. McCAIN (for Mr. Rubio) submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 appropriate place in subtitle C of title XVI, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON TRAINING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CYBER FORCES.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the Department 
     of Defense training infrastructure for cyber forces. Such 
     report shall include the following:
       (1) Identification of the shortcomings in such training 
     infrastructure.
       (2) Potential commercial applications to address such 
     shortcomings.
       (3) Future projections of cyber force growth and urgent 
     needs relating to such growth.
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