National Strategy for the Global Information Domain Act

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4466 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4466

   To establish in the Executive Office of the President the Federal 
Interagency Working Group on the Global Information Domain to develop a 
  national strategy for the global information domain, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2021

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on 
Armed Services, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and Transportation and 
   Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To establish in the Executive Office of the President the Federal 
Interagency Working Group on the Global Information Domain to develop a 
  national strategy for the global information domain, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Strategy for the Global 
Information Domain Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON THE GLOBAL INFORMATION 
              DOMAIN.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Executive Office of 
the President a working group to be known as the Federal Interagency 
Working Group on the Global Information Domain (in this section 
referred to as the ``Working Group'').
    (b) Membership.--
            (1) In general.--The Working Group shall be composed of no 
        less than six members appointed by the President and chosen 
        from among the following:
                    (A) Members of the National Security Council 
                described or designated by the President under section 
                101(c)(1) of the National Security Act of 1950 (50 
                U.S.C. 3021(c)(1)).
                    (B) Any officer described in section 101(c)(2) of 
                the National Security Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
                3021(c)(2)).
                    (C) Any position identified as a ``member'' or 
                ``regular attendee'' of the National Security Council 
                in a presidential directive establishing the structure 
                and function of the National Security Council.
            (2) Designates.--Members of the Working Group, acting in 
        their official capacity, may designate employees with authority 
        to act on their behalf.
            (3) Chairperson.--The Chairperson of the Working Group 
        shall be appointed by the President.
    (c) Director; Staff.--
            (1) Director.--The Working Group shall have a Director who 
        shall be appointed by the Chairperson.
            (2) Staff.--The Director may appoint and fix the pay of 
        additional personnel as the Director considers appropriate.
            (3) Duties.--The duties of the Director and staff shall be 
        to achieve the goals and carry out the duties of the Working 
        Group.
    (d) National Strategy for the Global Information Domain.--
            (1) Development of national strategy.--The primary goal of 
        the Working Group is to develop a national strategy for the 
        global information domain which shall include, at a minimum the 
        following:
                    (A) A prioritization of the global information 
                domain as an arena for international competition vital 
                to the national security of the United States.
                    (B) A description of how adversarial state and non-
                state actors are attempting to define and control the 
                global information domain in order to achieve the goals 
                of shaping global opinion and achieving strategic 
                advantage.
                    (C) A description of the critical role of 
                artificial intelligence-enabled malign information in 
                the efforts of adversarial state and non-state actors 
                to achieve the goals described in subparagraph (B).
                    (D) An identification of and prioritization of 
                actions to defend, counter, and compete against malign 
                information operations as a national security threat.
                    (E) As necessary, recommendations for any update to 
                critical infrastructure designations identified by 
                Presidential Policy Directive 21 and a recommendation 
                for the relevant departments and agencies to update 
                sector-specific plans to reflect emerging technologies.
                    (F) A recommendation for organizational structures 
                for national security agencies to counter and compete 
                against the threat.
            (2) Classified annex.--The National Strategy required by 
        paragraph (1) may include a classified annex.
            (3) Deadline.--Not later than 270 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this section, the President shall transmit to 
        Congress the national strategy required by paragraph (1).
    (e) Sunset.--The Working Group shall terminate not later than 3 
months after the date on which the national strategy is transmitted 
pursuant to subsection (d)(1).
    (f) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Critical infrastructure.--The term ``critical 
        infrastructure'' has the meaning given that term in section 
        1016(e) of the Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 
        (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)).
            (2) Global information domain.--The term ``global 
        information domain'' means a sphere of strategic competition in 
        which state and non-state actors create, obtain, fuse, analyze, 
        distort, transfer, exchange, or disseminate information, 
        overtly or covertly, to influence public opinion for national 
        security, geopolitical, or economic purposes.
            (3) National security agency.--The term ``national security 
        agency'' has the meaning given that term in section 681 of the 
        Communications Satellite Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 769(a)).
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