Sec. 204. Bolstering Ukraine’s cyber defense and resiliency capabilities
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There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 and 2023 for the purposes described in subsection (b). Amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection
(a)may only be used— to strengthen collaboration between the Government of Ukraine and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, the National Cyber Security Centre of the United Kingdom, the European Centre of Excellence for countering Hybrid Threats, and other national cybersecurity centers in NATO countries to bolster Ukraine’s cyber defense capabilities and to develop surge capabilities as necessary; to assist the Government of Ukraine in identifying critical areas of vulnerability within its cyber defense; to strengthen the ability of the Government of Ukraine to detect, investigate, disrupt, and deter cyberattacks and malign digital influence operations; to strengthen the ability of the Government of Ukraine to develop cybersecurity incident response teams and to develop procedures for responding to and mitigating the damage of cyberattacks; to support multilateral, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental efforts to improve Ukraine’s cybersecurity capacity efforts; to collaborate with the Government of Ukraine to better understand the nature of cyberattacks and malign digital influence operations that could be used to target the United States; to work with the private sector to help facilitate the sharing of information and services pertaining to cybersecurity and cyber resilience in Ukraine; and to expand the United States Transnational and High-Tech Crime Global Law Enforcement Network to provide additional training and capacity-building in Ukraine related to cybercrime and intellectual property crime, including by creating new International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Attorney Advisors or Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinators. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on efforts to implement the policy described in subsection (a). In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.