S.Amdt. 4580

SA 4580. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2022 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:

Strike section 1601 and insert the following:

SEC. 1601. MATTERS CONCERNING CYBER PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) determine the overall workforce requirement of the
Department of Defense for cyber and information operation
military personnel across the active and reserve components
of the Armed Forces (other than the Coast Guard) and for
civilian personnel, and in doing so shall--
(A) consider personnel in positions securing the Department
of Defense Information Network and associated enterprise
information technology, defense agencies and field
activities, and combatant commands, including current billets
primarily associated with the information environment and
cyberspace domain and projected future billets;
(B) consider the mix between military and civilian
personnel, active and reserve components, and the use of the
National Guard;
(C) develop a workforce development plan for military and
civilian personnel that covers accessions, training,
education, recruitment, retention, fair and competitive
compensation, enlistment standards and screening tools,
analysis of recruiting resources and sustainment of the
workforce, and metrics to evaluate success; and
(D) consider such other elements as the Secretary
determines appropriate;
(2) assess current and future general information warfare
and cyber education curriculum and requirements for military
and civilian personnel, including--
(A) acquisition personnel;
(B) accessions and recruits to the military services;
(C) cadets and midshipmen at the military service academies
and enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps;
(D) information environment and cyberspace military and
civilian personnel; and
(E) non-information environment and cyberspace military and
civilian personnel;
(3) assess the talent management value for the Department's
cyber workforce requirement of cyberspace and information
environment-related scholarship-for-service programs,
including--
(A) the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS);
(B) the Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program
(DoD CySP);
(C) the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and
Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service
Program;
(D) the Stokes Educational Scholarship Program; and
(E) the OnRamp II Scholarship Program;
(4) identify appropriate locations for information warfare
and cyber education for military and civilian personnel as
the Secretary considers appropriate, including--
(A) the military service academies;
(B) the educational institutions described in section
2151(b) of title 10, United States Code;
(C) the Air Force Institute of Technology;
(D) the National Defense University;
(E) the Joint Special Operations University;
(F) any other military educational institution of the
Department specified by the Secretary for purposes of this
section;
(G) the Cyber Centers of Academic Excellence certified
jointly by the National Security Agency and the Department of
Homeland Security; and
(H) potential future educational institutions of the
Federal Government, including an assessment, in consultation
with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the National
Cyber Director, of the potential components of a National
Cyber Academy or similar institute created for the purpose of
educating and training civilian and military personnel for
service in cyber, information, and related fields throughout
the Federal Government; and
(5) determine--
(A) the cyberspace domain and information warfare mission
requirements of an undergraduate- and graduate-level
professional military education college on par with and
distinct from the war colleges for the Army, Navy, and Air
Force;
(B) what curriculum such a college should instruct;
(C) whether such a college should be joint;
(D) where it should be located;
(E) where such college should be administered;
(F) interim efforts to improve the coordination of existing
cyber and information environment education programs; and
(G) the feasibility and advisability of partnering with and
integrating a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC)
program, which shall include civilian personnel, dedicated to
cyber and information environment operations.
(b) Briefing and Report Required.--Not later than May 31,
2022, the Secretary shall provide the Committee on Armed
Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of
the House of Representatives a briefing and, not later than
September 30, 2022, the Secretary shall submit to such
committees a report on--
(1) the findings of the Secretary in carrying out
subsection (a);

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(2) an implementation plan to achieve future information
warfare and cyber education requirements at appropriate
locations;
(3) such recommendations as the Secretary may have for
personnel needs in information warfare and the cyberspace
domain; and
(4) such legislative or administrative action as the
Secretary identifies as necessary to effectively meet cyber
personnel requirements.
(c) Education Defined.--In this section, the term
``education'' includes formal education requirements, such as
degrees and certification in targeted subject areas, but also
general training, including--
(1) reskilling;
(2) knowledge, skills, and abilities; and
(3) nonacademic professional development.
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