Cyber Defense National Guard Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 278 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 278

To require the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a study on 
    the feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense National Guard.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2023

 Ms. Jackson Lee introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
             the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a study on 
    the feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense National Guard.

    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 ``Cyber Defense National Guard Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDY ON ESTABLISHMENT OF CYBER DEFENSE NATIONAL GUARD.

    (a) Study.--The Director of National Intelligence, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
shall conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a Cyber 
Defense National Guard.
    (b) Contents.--The study required under subsection (a) shall 
include an analysis of--
            (1) the cost of creating a Cyber Defense National Guard;
            (2) the number of persons who would be needed to defend the 
        critical infrastructure of the United States from a cyber 
        attack or manmade intentional or unintentional catastrophic 
        incident;
            (3) the sources of potential members of a Cyber Defense 
        National Guard, including industry, academic institutions, 
        research facilities, and Federal contractors;
            (4) which elements of the Federal Government would be best 
        equipped to recruit, train, and manage a Cyber Defense National 
        Guard;
            (5) the criteria required for persons to serve in a Cyber 
        Defense National Guard;
            (6) if an incident disrupts communications in a region or 
        area, what resources can be pre-positioned and training 
        instilled to assure the effectiveness and responsiveness of a 
        Cyber Defense National Guard;
            (7) the minimum requirements for consideration for 
        inclusion in a Cyber Defense National Guard;
            (8) the impact of the effectiveness of a Cyber Defense 
        National Guard of the possibility that the population of 
        potential recruits may be dominated by men and women without 
        military, intelligence, law enforcement, or government work 
        experience;
            (9) the recruitment and vetting costs for a Cyber Defense 
        National Guard;
            (10) the frequency of cyber defense and unit cohesion 
        training;
            (11) how well military discipline is able to be adapted for 
        use for creating command and control systems and protocols for 
        a Cyber Defense National Guard;
            (12) the logistics of allowing governors to use the Cyber 
        Defense National Guard in States during times of cyber 
        emergency;
            (13) the advantages and disadvantages of creating a Cyber 
        Defense National Guard on the cyber security of the United 
        States; and
            (14) whether a force trained to defend the networks of the 
        United States in the event of a major attack or natural or 
        manmade disaster will benefit overall efforts to defend the 
        interests of the United States.
    (c) Report.--
            (1) Submission.--Not later than 240 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
        Intelligence, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and 
        the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall submit to the 
        Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland 
        Security, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and 
        the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives 
        and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland 
        Security and Governmental Affairs, the Select Committee on 
        Intelligence, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate 
        a report containing the results of the study required under 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be 
        submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
        annex.
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