[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4701]
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  SA 2363. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Manchin, and Mrs. Gillibrand) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 
4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 1085 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1085. HOMELAND DEFENSE PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Report on At-risk Critical Infrastructure and Assets.--
     Not later than February 15, 2025, the Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, in 
     consultation with the Commander of the United States Cyber 
     Command, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland 
     Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, the Director of the Defense 
     Intelligence Agency, and the heads of relevant civilian 
     agencies, shall submit to the designated recipients and the 
     Commander of the United States Northern Command a detailed 
     list of the critical infrastructure and assets in the United 
     States that are assessed to be likely targets of an attack, 
     including kinetic and non-kinetic attacks, in a major 
     conflict with an adversary.
       (b) Report on Likely Requests for Support.--Not later than 
     April 15, 2025, in consultation with relevant civilian 
     agencies, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland 
     Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, and the Assistant Secretary 
     of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities shall submit 
     to the designated recipients a report identifying and 
     assessing the foreseeable requests for support from civilian 
     agencies responsible for the defense of the critical 
     infrastructure and assets detailed in the report submitted 
     under subsection (a). The report shall include--
       (1) each agency likely to request support;
       (2) the existing capabilities of each agency to respond to 
     and defend against a prospective attack;
       (3) the specific capabilities requested, and an estimate of 
     the number of Department of Defense personnel that would be 
     required to provide those capabilities;
       (4) an estimate of the cost for providing the requested 
     Department of Defense support; and
       (5) an estimate of the duration of support that could be 
     provided in response to such requests, and an assessment of 
     whether such support could be provided in a protracted 
     scenario extending beyond 180 days.
       (c) Feasibility Assessment.--Not later than June 1, 2025, 
     the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and 
     Capabilities, in consultation with the Commander of the 
     United States Cyber Command, the Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, the 
     Commander of the United States Northern Command, and the 
     heads of relevant civilian agencies, shall submit to the 
     designated recipients a report assessing the feasibility of 
     providing support to the requests identified in the report 
     submitted under subsection (b). The assessment shall address 
     providing support to a request independently, concurrent with 
     other related requests, and consecutive with other requests.
       (d) Designated Recipients Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``designated recipients'' means--
       (1) the Secretary of Defense;
       (2) the Secretaries of the military departments;
       (3) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
       (4) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
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