[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2720-S2721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 609. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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. 16__. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT VOLUNTARY AND UNCOMPENSATED 
                   SERVICES FROM CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS.

       (a) Authority.--Section 167b(d) of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) The Commander of United States Cyber Command may 
     accept voluntary and uncompensated services from 
     cybersecurity

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     experts, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1342 of 
     title 31, and may delegate such authority to the chiefs of 
     the armed forces.''.
       (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 167b of 
     such title, as amended by subsection (a), is further 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``referred to as the 
     `cyber command' '' and inserting ``referred to as `United 
     States Cyber Command' ''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the Cyber Command'' and 
     inserting ``United States Cyber Command'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``Cyber Command'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``United States Cyber 
     Command'';
       (3) in subsections (c) and (d)--
       (A) by striking ``cyber command'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``United States Cyber Command'';
       (B) by striking ``commander of the'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``Commander of''; and
       (C) by striking ``commander of such command'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``Commander of such Command''; and
       (4) in subsection (d)(3)(C), by striking ``of the 
     commander'' and inserting ``of the Commander''.
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