[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5222]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 948. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 end of subtitle C of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1630C. NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU PUBLIC-PRIVATE CYBER-
                   SECURITY COALITION.

       (a) Establishment.--
       (1) In general.--The Director of the National Guard Bureau 
     shall establish regionally focused coalitions, tasked with 
     creating cross-functional partnerships and strategies to 
     coordinate and share information among local, regional, and 
     national entities, both public and private, in order to 
     protect vital assets in the cyber realm.
       (2) Blending skill sets.--The coalitions established under 
     paragraph (1) shall seek to create partnerships described in 
     such paragraph that blend divergent skill sets to collaborate 
     on joint defense of public and private systems that each face 
     cyber assault.
       (3) Coordination, cooperation, and shared analysis.--Such 
     partnerships shall address threats equally shared among the 
     entities participating in the partnerships through local 
     coordination, shared cooperation, and shared analysis across 
     the overarching cyber defense network.
       (b) Goal.--The goal of the coalitions established under 
     subsection (a) is to coordinate National Guard State cyber 
     protection assets and to collaborate with locally based 
     Federal agencies and private industry stakeholders in order 
     to broaden the collective intellectual capital, to strengthen 
     active participation and sharing of information, to integrate 
     new threat mitigation strategies, and to grow the cyber 
     network through shared experience.
       (c) Duties.--The coalitions established under subsection 
     (a) shall carry out the following:
       (1) Development of a framework for the conduct by relevant 
     public and private cyber-enabled entities, while coordinating 
     with regional assets of the Department of Homeland Security, 
     the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security 
     Agency, and the Department of Defense, as appropriate.
       (2) Dissemination of common operating paradigms across 
     relevant organizations specified in paragraph (1) to promote 
     active participation in a shared goal of national asset 
     protection through a regionally focused coalitions.
       (3) Collection across local entities for consolidating, 
     packaging, and sharing data to the Department of Defense, 
     intelligence agencies, or relevant organizations for 
     analysis.
       (4) Using already established State fusion center 
     partnerships as a template, the National Guard shall assess 
     individual State cyber assets and capabilities currently 
     collaborating with local agencies and private industry for 
     proper synchronization in the cyber and critical 
     infrastructure realms as a bridge for cooperation with 
     Federal defense agencies writ large.
       (d) Head of Cross-functional Task.--The Director of the 
     National Guard Bureau shall appoint as the head of each 
     coalition established under subsection (a) such individual as 
     the Director considers appropriate from among individuals 
     serving in the region of interest a State adjutant general. 
     In cases where regional priorities overlap, the adjutant 
     generals for States involved will co-chair the coalition.
       (e) Periodic Status Reports.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently 
     than once every 180 days thereafter until the date that is 
     three years after the date of such submittal, the Director 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     describing the status of the efforts of the Director to carry 
     out this section and the efforts of the coalitions to carry 
     out subsection (c).
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