S.Amdt. 948

SA 948. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 end of subtitle C of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1630C. NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU PUBLIC-PRIVATE CYBER-
SECURITY COALITION.

(a) Establishment.--
(1) In general.--The Director of the National Guard Bureau
shall establish regionally focused coalitions, tasked with
creating cross-functional partnerships and strategies to
coordinate and share information among local, regional, and
national entities, both public and private, in order to
protect vital assets in the cyber realm.
(2) Blending skill sets.--The coalitions established under
paragraph (1) shall seek to create partnerships described in
such paragraph that blend divergent skill sets to collaborate
on joint defense of public and private systems that each face
cyber assault.
(3) Coordination, cooperation, and shared analysis.--Such
partnerships shall address threats equally shared among the
entities participating in the partnerships through local
coordination, shared cooperation, and shared analysis across
the overarching cyber defense network.
(b) Goal.--The goal of the coalitions established under
subsection (a) is to coordinate National Guard State cyber
protection assets and to collaborate with locally based
Federal agencies and private industry stakeholders in order
to broaden the collective intellectual capital, to strengthen
active participation and sharing of information, to integrate
new threat mitigation strategies, and to grow the cyber
network through shared experience.
(c) Duties.--The coalitions established under subsection
(a) shall carry out the following:
(1) Development of a framework for the conduct by relevant
public and private cyber-enabled entities, while coordinating
with regional assets of the Department of Homeland Security,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security
Agency, and the Department of Defense, as appropriate.
(2) Dissemination of common operating paradigms across
relevant organizations specified in paragraph (1) to promote
active participation in a shared goal of national asset
protection through a regionally focused coalitions.
(3) Collection across local entities for consolidating,
packaging, and sharing data to the Department of Defense,
intelligence agencies, or relevant organizations for
analysis.
(4) Using already established State fusion center
partnerships as a template, the National Guard shall assess
individual State cyber assets and capabilities currently
collaborating with local agencies and private industry for
proper synchronization in the cyber and critical
infrastructure realms as a bridge for cooperation with
Federal defense agencies writ large.
(d) Head of Cross-functional Task.--The Director of the
National Guard Bureau shall appoint as the head of each
coalition established under subsection (a) such individual as
the Director considers appropriate from among individuals
serving in the region of interest a State adjutant general.
In cases where regional priorities overlap, the adjutant
generals for States involved will co-chair the coalition.
(e) Periodic Status Reports.--Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently
than once every 180 days thereafter until the date that is
three years after the date of such submittal, the Director
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
describing the status of the efforts of the Director to carry
out this section and the efforts of the coalitions to carry
out subsection (c).
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