[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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