S.Amdt. 2380

SA 2380. Mr. PERDUE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2019 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. ___. BRIEFING ON CYBER EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

(a) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that--
(1) traditional approaches to cyber training focused solely
on tactics, techniques, and procedures that hackers have used
in the past may be inadequate for the challenges facing the
cyber workforce of the Department of Defense because they
fail to focus on future threats;
(2) such workforce encounters an information gap when
conducting training derived from events that have already
occurred rather than training developed for the evolving
nature of cyber threats in real time, and cyber
certifications such as Security + and CISSP are based on
preventing vulnerabilities, exploits, and gaps identified in
the past and lose relevance depending on when the courseware
was updated;
(3) bridging the gap in cyber training between curriculum
that has been built on legacy data versus training built on
current real world cyberattacks is a meaningful area of cyber
training research, curriculum development, and instruction
delivery that should be addressed; and
(4) universities and private industry are, and will
continue to be, critical partners in the education and
training of our future cyber force, and developing
partnerships with such universities and industry will be
crucial in staying informed of the latest best practices in
the cyber domain.
(b) Briefing Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall brief the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and
the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives on how the Department of Defense can leverage
and partner with universities and industry on cyber education
and training.
(c) Elements.--The briefing required by subsection (a)
shall include discussion of the following:
(1) Current partnerships and ability to expand and leverage
such partnerships to improve cyber education and training.
(2) Existing curriculum relating to cyber education and
training and recommendations for changes to ensure relevance
of such education and training to future threats.
(3) Joint development of curriculum, courseware, and
research projects.
(4) Joint use of instructors and of facilities.
(5) Recommendations for legislative or administrative
action to improve cyber education and training partnerships.
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