S.Amdt. 306

SA 306. Mr. WYDEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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. ____. REQUIREMENT FOR FULL-DISK ENCRYPTION OF NATIONAL
SECURITY SYSTEMS.

(a) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Committee on National Security
Systems shall update Committee on National Security Systems
Instruction Number 1253 entitled ``Security Categorization
and Control Selection for National Security Systems'' to
require that each national security system be configured to
protect, with full-disk encryption, all information stored at
rest on that system unless the head of the entity responsible
for that system obtains a written waiver of such requirement
from both the Chief Information Security Officer of the
Department of Defense and the Chief Information Security
Officer of the National Security Agency.
(b) Notice.--In any case in which the Chief Information
Security Officer of the Department of Defense and the Chief
Information Security Officer of the National Security Agency
both provide waivers for a national security system under
subsection (a) for a national security system, such chief
information security officers shall, not later than 30 days
after both waivers have been issued, jointly submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress copies of such waivers.
(c) Definition of Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In
this section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee
on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland
Security of the House of Representatives.
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