Sec. 519D. Recognition of the Army Interagency Training and Education Center as a joint activity of the National Guard; report
504 words·~2 min read·
/bill/117/hr/7900/eh/section-519dA research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Congress makes the following findings: AITEC has been designated by the National Guard Bureau as a joint activity of the Army and Air National Guard responsible for the following activities: Mission assurance and other critical infrastructure protection activities in support of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security entities. All-hazards disaster response training and exercises for the National Guard in partnership with Federal, State, local, territorial, and Tribal response enterprise organizations.
AITEC is composed of members of the Army and Air National Guard who possess relevant private-sector critical skills and experience in the fields of emergency response, engineering, cybersecurity, electric power, logistics, telecommunications, utilities, medical, rescue, or such other fields as determined by evolving mission requirements. The National Guard Bureau has designated AITEC as having the following duties: Providing the Department of Defense with— unique civilian expertise and experience of critical infrastructure protection, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear response, emergency management, control systems cybersecurity, and incident management; training and exercise support of Joint Interagency Training Capability, including Joint Force Headquarters-State and Joint Task Force-State Headquarters elements, National Guard Reaction Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams, and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or High-Yield Explosive Emergency Response Force Packages, and Homeland Response Forces; and personnel to conduct Mission Assurance, Cybersecurity, Port Security & Resiliency, and other critical infrastructure assessments and training along with Counter-IED and bombing prevention training to intergovernmental partners and first responders.
On an ongoing basis, partnering with the military departments, the combatant commands, other Department of Defense agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, and State, local, territorial, and Tribal governments to conduct— all-threats, all-hazards Mission Assurance assessments in the areas of Mission Assurance Related Programs and Activities, including cyber supply chain risk management, position, navigation, and timing, and unmanned systems on Defense Critical Infrastructure; all-hazards and disaster response training and exercise support; infrastructure protection assessment activities, cybersecurity, and counter-IED and bombing prevention training for the Department of Homeland Security; and Port Security & Resiliency assessments for the Coast Guard.
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes— an organizational plan and an estimate of the annual costs necessary for AITEC to complete its duties as described in subsection (a)(3); and the manpower requirements needed to adequately staff such duties.
In this section: The term AITEC means the Army Interagency Training and Education Center. The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The term critical infrastructure has the meaning given the term in section 702 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 ( 50 U.S.C. 4552 ).
Connectionstraces to 1
Traces to 1 document
U.S. Code
Citation graph
cites case law
Sec. 519D
Recognition of the Army Interagency Training and Education Center as a joint activity of the National Guard; report
Cites 1Cited by 0 across 0 sources