S.Amdt. 3151

SA 3151. Mr. UDALL of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3254, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2013 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:

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SEC. 924A. USE OF NATIONAL SECURITY LABORATORIES IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT-GENERATION HOST-BASED CYBERSECURITY SYSTEM.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--

(1) cybersecurity is a top priority of the United States; and

(2) the national security laboratories of the National Nuclear Security Administration are a national resource that can be used to develop effective solutions to cybersecurity challenges.

(b) Collaboration Required.--The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics shall collaborate with the Administrator for Nuclear Security to use the research, engineering, and technological resources of the national security laboratories in developing the strategy to acquire next-generation host-based cybersecurity tools and capabilities for the Department of Defense required by section 924(a).

(c) National Security Laboratory Defined.--In this section, the term “national security laboratory” has the meaning given that term in section 3281 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2471).