Sec. 1622. Expansion of authority for access and information relating to cyberattacks on Department of Defense operationally critical contractors
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Section 391(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (3)— by amending subparagraph
(A)to read as follows: include mechanisms for Department personnel— if requested by an operationally critical contractor, to assist the contractor in detecting and mitigating penetrations; or at the request of the Department, to obtain access to equipment or information of an operationally critical contractor necessary to conduct a forensic analysis, in addition to any analysis conducted by the contractor; and ; and in subparagraph (B)— by striking to determine whether information and inserting the following: to determine whether— information ; in clause (i), as so designated— by inserting or compromised on after exfiltrated from ; and by striking the period at the end and inserting or compromised; or ; and by adding at the end the following new clause: the ability of the contractor to provide operationally critical support has been affected and, if so, how and to what extent it has been affected. ; in paragraph (4), by inserting , so as to minimize delays in or any curtailing of the Department’s cyber response and defensive actions after specific person ; and in paragraph (5)(C), by inserting or counterintelligence activities after investigations .