[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2380. Mr. PERDUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2019 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 title XVI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. ___. BRIEFING ON CYBER EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

       (a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that--
       (1) traditional approaches to cyber training focused solely 
     on tactics, techniques, and procedures that hackers have used 
     in the past may be inadequate for the challenges facing the 
     cyber workforce of the Department of Defense because they 
     fail to focus on future threats;
       (2) such workforce encounters an information gap when 
     conducting training derived from events that have already 
     occurred rather than training developed for the evolving 
     nature of cyber threats in real time, and cyber 
     certifications such as Security + and CISSP are based on 
     preventing vulnerabilities, exploits, and gaps identified in 
     the past and lose relevance depending on when the courseware 
     was updated;
       (3) bridging the gap in cyber training between curriculum 
     that has been built on legacy data versus training built on 
     current real world cyberattacks is a meaningful area of cyber 
     training research, curriculum development, and instruction 
     delivery that should be addressed; and
       (4) universities and private industry are, and will 
     continue to be, critical partners in the education and 
     training of our future cyber force, and developing 
     partnerships with such universities and industry will be 
     crucial in staying informed of the latest best practices in 
     the cyber domain.
       (b) Briefing Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall brief the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives on how the Department of Defense can leverage 
     and partner with universities and industry on cyber education 
     and training.
       (c) Elements.--The briefing required by subsection (a) 
     shall include discussion of the following:
       (1) Current partnerships and ability to expand and leverage 
     such partnerships to improve cyber education and training.
       (2) Existing curriculum relating to cyber education and 
     training and recommendations for changes to ensure relevance 
     of such education and training to future threats.
       (3) Joint development of curriculum, courseware, and 
     research projects.
       (4) Joint use of instructors and of facilities.
       (5) Recommendations for legislative or administrative 
     action to improve cyber education and training partnerships.
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