S.Amdt. 2363

SA 2363. Mr. ROUNDS (for himself, Mr. Manchin, and Mrs. Gillibrand)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S.
4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 1085 and insert the following:

SEC. 1085. HOMELAND DEFENSE PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.

(a) Report on At-risk Critical Infrastructure and Assets.--
Not later than February 15, 2025, the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, in
consultation with the Commander of the United States Cyber
Command, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland
Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, the Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and the heads of relevant civilian
agencies, shall submit to the designated recipients and the
Commander of the United States Northern Command a detailed
list of the critical infrastructure and assets in the United
States that are assessed to be likely targets of an attack,
including kinetic and non-kinetic attacks, in a major
conflict with an adversary.
(b) Report on Likely Requests for Support.--Not later than
April 15, 2025, in consultation with relevant civilian
agencies, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland
Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, and the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities shall submit
to the designated recipients a report identifying and
assessing the foreseeable requests for support from civilian
agencies responsible for the defense of the critical
infrastructure and assets detailed in the report submitted
under subsection (a). The report shall include--
(1) each agency likely to request support;
(2) the existing capabilities of each agency to respond to
and defend against a prospective attack;
(3) the specific capabilities requested, and an estimate of
the number of Department of Defense personnel that would be
required to provide those capabilities;
(4) an estimate of the cost for providing the requested
Department of Defense support; and
(5) an estimate of the duration of support that could be
provided in response to such requests, and an assessment of
whether such support could be provided in a protracted
scenario extending beyond 180 days.
(c) Feasibility Assessment.--Not later than June 1, 2025,
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and
Capabilities, in consultation with the Commander of the
United States Cyber Command, the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, the
Commander of the United States Northern Command, and the
heads of relevant civilian agencies, shall submit to the
designated recipients a report assessing the feasibility of
providing support to the requests identified in the report
submitted under subsection (b). The assessment shall address
providing support to a request independently, concurrent with
other related requests, and consecutive with other requests.
(d) Designated Recipients Defined.--In this section, the
term ``designated recipients'' means--
(1) the Secretary of Defense;
(2) the Secretaries of the military departments;
(3) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(4) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
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