Sec. 941. Authorities, capabilities, and oversight of the United States Cyber Command
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The Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, determine whether the United States Cyber Command requires signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection authorities to execute its missions in support of the Department of Defense, the other combatant commands, and the national cyber defense generally, whether in peacetime or conflict, including in the operational preparation of the environment. If the Secretary determines pursuant to paragraph
(1)that the United States Cyber Command requires signals intelligence collection authorities to execute its missions, the Secretary, as the executive agent of the President for signals intelligence pursuant to Executive Order No. 12333, shall, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, delegate appropriate signals intelligence collection authorities to the United States Cyber Command. The Secretary shall take such actions as the Secretary considers appropriate to provide the United States Cyber Command operational military units with infrastructure and equipment enabling access to the Internet and other types of networks in order to permit the United States Cyber Command to conduct its peacetime and wartime missions independently of the National Security Agency so as to avoid compromising sources and methods in the execution of military operations. The Secretary shall review existing cyber ranges and adapt one or more such ranges, as necessary, to support training and exercises of cyber units that are assigned to execute offensive military cyber operations. Each range so adapted under this subsection shall have the capability to support offensive military operations against targets that— have not been previously identified and prepared for attack; and must be compromised or neutralized immediately without regard to whether the adversary can detect and attribute the attack. The Secretary shall designate, from among the existing personnel of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, an official to act as the principal advisor to the Secretary on offensive military cyber forces. Any official so designated shall be an official who holds the official's current position by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The official designated under this subsection shall have responsibility for the following: Resource management and oversight of the organizing, training, and equipping of offensive military cyber forces, including oversight of the planning, programming, and budgeting process for such forces. Such other matters relating to offensive military cyber forces as the Secretary shall specify for purposes of this subsection. The Secretary shall establish and maintain training capabilities and facilities in the Armed Forces and, as the Secretary considers appropriate, at United States Cyber Command, to support the needs of the Armed Forces and the United States Cyber Command for personnel who are assigned offensive and defensive cyber missions in the Department of Defense. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should fund and manage personnel of the Department whose cyber operations responsibilities are primarily offensive in nature outside of the Military Intelligence Program
(MIP)and the Information Systems Security Program.
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Sec. 941
Authorities, capabilities, and oversight of the United States Cyber Command
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