S.Amdt. 1719

SA 1719. Mr. KING (for himself and Mr. Sasse) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. STRENGTHENING PROCESSES FOR IDENTIFYING CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE CYBERSECURITY INTELLIGENCE NEEDS
AND PRIORITIES.

(a) Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Intelligence
Needs and Priorities.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Director of National
Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the
heads of appropriate Sector-Specific Agencies (as defined in
section 2201 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C.
651)), shall establish a formal process to solicit and
compile critical infrastructure input to inform national
intelligence collection and analysis priorities.
(2) Recurrent input.--Not later than 30 days following the
establishment of the process required pursuant to paragraph
(1), and biennially thereafter, the Director of National
Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, shall
solicit information from critical infrastructure utilizing
the process established pursuant to paragraph (1).
(b) Intelligence Needs Evaluation and Planning.--Utilizing
the information received through the process established
pursuant to subsection (a), as well as existing intelligence
information and processes, the Director of National
Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, shall--
(1) identify common technologies or interdependencies that
are likely to be targeted by nation-state adversaries;
(2) identify intelligence gaps across critical
infrastructure cybersecurity efforts;
(3) identify and execute methods of empowering sector-
specific agencies--
(A) to identify specific critical lines of businesses,
technologies, and processes within their respective sectors;
and
(B) to coordinate directly with the intelligence community
to convey specific information relevant to the operation of
each sector; and

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(4) refocus information collection and analysis activities,
as necessary to address identified gaps and mitigate threats
to the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure of the United
States.
(c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 90 days after the
completion of the identification and refocusing required by
subsection (b), and annually thereafter, the Director of
National Intelligence and the Director of the Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency shall jointly submit to
the appropriate committees of Congress a report that--
(1) assesses how the information obtained from critical
infrastructure is shaping intelligence collection activities;
(2) evaluates the success of the intelligence community in
sharing relevant, actionable intelligence with critical
infrastructure; and
(3) addresses any legislative or policy changes necessary
to enable the intelligence community to increase sharing of
actionable intelligence with critical infrastructure.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(B) Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Committee on Homeland Security of the House of
Representatives.
(2) The term ``critical infrastructure'' has the meaning
given that term in the Critical Infrastructures Protection
Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c).
(3) The term ``intelligence community'' has the meaning
given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of
1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
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