[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8100-S8101]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4580. 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:

        Strike section 1601 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1601. MATTERS CONCERNING CYBER PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall--
       (1) determine the overall workforce requirement of the 
     Department of Defense for cyber and information operation 
     military personnel across the active and reserve components 
     of the Armed Forces (other than the Coast Guard) and for 
     civilian personnel, and in doing so shall--
       (A) consider personnel in positions securing the Department 
     of Defense Information Network and associated enterprise 
     information technology, defense agencies and field 
     activities, and combatant commands, including current billets 
     primarily associated with the information environment and 
     cyberspace domain and projected future billets;
       (B) consider the mix between military and civilian 
     personnel, active and reserve components, and the use of the 
     National Guard;
       (C) develop a workforce development plan for military and 
     civilian personnel that covers accessions, training, 
     education, recruitment, retention, fair and competitive 
     compensation, enlistment standards and screening tools, 
     analysis of recruiting resources and sustainment of the 
     workforce, and metrics to evaluate success; and
       (D) consider such other elements as the Secretary 
     determines appropriate;
       (2) assess current and future general information warfare 
     and cyber education curriculum and requirements for military 
     and civilian personnel, including--
       (A) acquisition personnel;
       (B) accessions and recruits to the military services;
       (C) cadets and midshipmen at the military service academies 
     and enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps;
       (D) information environment and cyberspace military and 
     civilian personnel; and
       (E) non-information environment and cyberspace military and 
     civilian personnel;
       (3) assess the talent management value for the Department's 
     cyber workforce requirement of cyberspace and information 
     environment-related scholarship-for-service programs, 
     including--
       (A) the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS);
       (B) the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program 
     (DoD CySP);
       (C) the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and 
     Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service 
     Program;
       (D) the Stokes Educational Scholarship Program; and
       (E) the OnRamp II Scholarship Program;
       (4) identify appropriate locations for information warfare 
     and cyber education for military and civilian personnel as 
     the Secretary considers appropriate, including--
       (A) the military service academies;
       (B) the educational institutions described in section 
     2151(b) of title 10, United States Code;
       (C) the Air Force Institute of Technology;
       (D) the National Defense University;
       (E) the Joint Special Operations University;
       (F) any other military educational institution of the 
     Department specified by the Secretary for purposes of this 
     section;
       (G) the Cyber Centers of Academic Excellence certified 
     jointly by the National Security Agency and the Department of 
     Homeland Security; and
       (H) potential future educational institutions of the 
     Federal Government, including an assessment, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the National 
     Cyber Director, of the potential components of a National 
     Cyber Academy or similar institute created for the purpose of 
     educating and training civilian and military personnel for 
     service in cyber, information, and related fields throughout 
     the Federal Government; and
       (5) determine--
       (A) the cyberspace domain and information warfare mission 
     requirements of an undergraduate- and graduate-level 
     professional military education college on par with and 
     distinct from 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 it should be located;
       (E) where such college should be administered;
       (F) interim efforts to improve the coordination of existing 
     cyber and information environment education programs; and
       (G) the feasibility and advisability of partnering with and 
     integrating a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) 
     program, which shall include civilian personnel, dedicated to 
     cyber and information environment operations.
       (b) Briefing and Report Required.--Not later than May 31, 
     2022, the Secretary shall provide the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the House of Representatives a briefing and, not later than 
     September 30, 2022, the Secretary shall submit to such 
     committees a report on--
       (1) the findings of the Secretary in carrying out 
     subsection (a);

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       (2) an implementation plan to achieve future information 
     warfare and cyber education requirements at appropriate 
     locations;
       (3) such recommendations as the Secretary may have for 
     personnel needs in information warfare and the cyberspace 
     domain; and
       (4) such legislative or administrative action as the 
     Secretary identifies as necessary to effectively meet cyber 
     personnel requirements.
       (c) Education Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``education'' includes formal education requirements, such as 
     degrees and certification in targeted subject areas, but also 
     general training, including--
       (1) reskilling;
       (2) knowledge, skills, and abilities; and
       (3) nonacademic professional development.
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