[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7646]
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  SA 4182. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be 
proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2022 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 X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. INFORMATION WARFARE AND CYBER EDUCATION CURRICULUM 
                   AND REQUIREMENTS FOR CIVILIAN INTELLIGENCE 
                   COMMUNITY.

       (a) In General.--The Director of National Intelligence 
     shall--
       (1) assess current general information warfare and cyber 
     education curriculum and requirements for civilian elements 
     of the intelligence community and other civilian personnel as 
     the Director considers appropriate, including--
       (A) acquisition personnel;
       (B) information environment and cyberspace personnel;
       (C) non-information environment and cyberspace personnel;
       (D) cyberspace and information environment-related 
     scholarship-for-service programs, including--
       (i) the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS);
       (ii) the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program 
     (DoD CySP);
       (iii) the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and 
     Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service 
     Program;
       (iv) the Stokes Educational Scholarship Program; and
       (v) the OnRamp II Scholarship Program; and
       (2) determine--
       (A) the cyberspace domain and information security 
     requirements of an undergraduate- and graduate-level 
     professional education college on par with the war colleges 
     for the Army, Navy, and Air Force;
       (B) what curriculum such a college should instruct;
       (C) whether such a college should be joint;
       (D) where such a college should be located;
       (E) under which Federal agency such a college should be 
     administered; and
       (F) interim efforts to improve the coordination of existing 
     cyber and information environment education programs; and
       (3) assess the global current and future cyber and 
     information security environment and its effect on the 
     national security of the United States, including--
       (A) the cyber workforce capacity of rival state armed 
     forces and non-state actors and potential cyber operations to 
     enable their warfighting capabilities and threaten the 
     national security of the United States; and
       (B) the composition of civilian and military cyber 
     workforces of rival state and non-state actors and how rival 
     state and non-state actors use cyber operations to undermine 
     the economic strength, political will, and military might of 
     the United States.
       (b) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than May 31, 2022, the Director 
     shall provide the Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
     Senate and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 
     the House of Representatives a briefing and, not later than 
     December 1, 2022, the Director shall submit to such 
     committees a report on--
       (A) the findings of the Director in carrying out subsection 
     (a);
       (B) an implementation plan to achieve future information 
     security and cyber education requirements at appropriate 
     locations;
       (C) such recommendations as the Director may have for 
     personnel needs in information warfare and the cyberspace 
     domain; and
       (D) such legislative or administrative action as the 
     Director identifies as necessary to effectively meet cyber 
     personnel requirements.
       (2) Form.--In presenting and submitting findings under 
     paragraph (1)(A) with respect to subsection (a)(3), the 
     Director may--
       (A) when providing the briefing required by such paragraph, 
     present such findings in a classified setting; and
       (B) when submitting the report required by such paragraph, 
     include such findings in a classified annex.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``education'' includes formal education 
     requirements, such as degrees and certification in targeted 
     subject areas, but also general training, including--
       (A) reskilling;
       (B) knowledge, skills, and abilities; and
       (C) nonacademic professional development.
       (2) The term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning 
     given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 
     1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
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