Sec. 1521. Notification requirements regarding cyber weapons
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the Department of Defense’s compliance responsibilities regarding cyber capabilities. Such report shall also include the Department’s definition of cyber capability that includes all software, hardware, middleware, code, and other information technology developed using amounts from the Cyberspace Activities Budget of the Department of Defense that may used in operations authorized under title 10, United States Code.
Of amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2022 for operations and maintenance, Defense-Wide, for the Office of the Secretary of Defense for travel, not more than 75 percent of such amounts may be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional defense committees the report required under subsection (a).