Sec. 1639. Personnel management authority for Commander of United States Cyber Command and development program for offensive cyber operations
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Section 1599h of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 212 of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 )), is further amended— in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following: The Commander of United States Cyber Command may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection
(b)in order to facilitate the recruitment of eminent experts in computer science, data science, engineering, mathematics, and computer network exploitation within the headquarters of United States Cyber Command and the Cyber National Mission Force. ; and in subsection (b)(1)— in subparagraph (E), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; in subparagraph (F), by striking the semicolon and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: in the case of United States Cyber Command, appoint computer scientists, data scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer network exploitation specialists to a total of not more than 10 scientific and engineering positions in the Command; . Pursuant to the authority provided under section 1599h(a)(7) of such title, as added by subsection (a), the Commander of United States Cyber Command shall establish a program or augment an existing program within the Command to develop accesses, discover vulnerabilities, and engineer cyber tools and develop tactics, techniques, and procedures for the use of these assets and capabilities in offensive cyber operations. The program or augmented program required by paragraph
(1)shall— develop accesses, tools, vulnerabilities, and tactics, techniques, and procedures fit for Department of Defense military operations in cyberspace, such as reliability, meeting short development and operational timelines, low cost, and expendability; aim to decrease the reliance of Cyber Command on accesses, tools, and expertise provided by the intelligence community; be designed to provide technical and operational expertise on par with that of programs of the intelligence community; enable the Commander to attract and retain expertise resident in the private sector and other technologically elite government organizations; and coordinate development activities with, and, as appropriate, facilitate transition of capabilities from, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Strategic Capabilities Office, and components within the intelligence community. In this subsection, the term intelligence community has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 ).
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Personnel management authority for Commander of United States Cyber Command and development program for offensive cyber operations
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