S.Amdt. 609

SA 609. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. 16__. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT VOLUNTARY AND UNCOMPENSATED
SERVICES FROM CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS.

(a) Authority.--Section 167b(d) of title 10, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(4) The Commander of United States Cyber Command may
accept voluntary and uncompensated services from
cybersecurity

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experts, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1342 of
title 31, and may delegate such authority to the chiefs of
the armed forces.''.
(b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 167b of
such title, as amended by subsection (a), is further
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``referred to as the
`cyber command' '' and inserting ``referred to as `United
States Cyber Command' ''; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the Cyber Command'' and
inserting ``United States Cyber Command'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``Cyber Command'' each
place it appears and inserting ``United States Cyber
Command'';
(3) in subsections (c) and (d)--
(A) by striking ``cyber command'' each place it appears and
inserting ``United States Cyber Command'';
(B) by striking ``commander of the'' each place it appears
and inserting ``Commander of''; and
(C) by striking ``commander of such command'' each place it
appears and inserting ``Commander of such Command''; and
(4) in subsection (d)(3)(C), by striking ``of the
commander'' and inserting ``of the Commander''.
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