[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3616]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 629. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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. ___. PILOT PROGRAM ON CYBER THREAT DETECTION IN A REAL 
                   ENVIRONMENT.

       (a) Pilot Program Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and 
     advisability of using leading commercial technologies to 
     identify cyber threats within moments and enabling personnel 
     of the Security Operations Center to investigate issues 
     almost immediately thereafter and then isolate or remediate 
     any issues within an hour of detection.
       (b) Report.--At the end of the pilot program required by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the security 
     outcomes of the pilot program against a control group using 
     traditional security protocols elsewhere in the Department of 
     Defense.
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