Sec. 1605. Strategy, force, and capability development for cyber effects and security in support of operational forces
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The Deputy Secretary of Defense shall, in coordination with the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, develop a strategy for converged cyber and electronic warfare conducted by and through deployed military and intelligence assets operating in the radiofrequency domain to provide strategic, operational, and tactical effects in support of combatant commanders. The strategy developed under paragraph
(1)shall specify means for supporting the strategy that include apertures and emitters that are space-based, airborne, ground-based, and sea-based. The strategy developed under paragraph
(1)may specify targets of the strategy that include the range of electronic systems embedded in adversary space-based, airborne, ground-based, and maritime forces. In developing the strategy required by paragraph (1), the Deputy Secretary shall ensure that the strategy development team has access to all relevant programs, activities, and capabilities ongoing within the Department of Defense, including special access programs and other compartmented access programs. The Vice Chairman shall, in consultation with the geographic combatant commanders, the Commander of United States Cyber Command, and the Commander of Strategic Command, submit to the Deputy Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommendations regarding command and control, deconfliction, and coordination relationships and processes between combatant commanders and the Commander of United States Cyber Command regarding tactical cyber operations and converged cyber and electronic warfare operations conducted prior to and during armed conflict. In parallel and in coordination with the development of the strategy under subsection (a), the Deputy Secretary and the Vice Chairman shall develop requirements for service-retained tactical cyber forces for offensive and defensive cyber missions— to defend deployed information technology and operational technology networks, intelligence systems, command and control nodes, tactical data networks, and weapon platforms and systems; to conduct offensive actions to achieve effects against adversary weapons systems, platforms, sensor systems, and tactical and operational command and control networks and communications systems; and to develop the intelligence requirements, strategy, and requisite data flows to support converged cyber and electronic warfare operations. The Deputy Secretary shall identify, designate, and create organizational constructs and processes to continuously generate and deliver cyber and converged cyber and electronic warfare capabilities into the Cyber Mission Forces, service-retained cyber forces, and other appropriate platforms and systems that can— achieve effects against adversary weapons systems, sensor systems, and tactical and operational command and control networks and communications systems; and enhance the cybersecurity of deployed information technology and operational technology networks, and weapon platforms and systems operating in or from space, air, ground, and maritime domains. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary shall brief the congressional defense committees and the congressional intelligence committees (as defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 )) on the status of the implementation of this section.
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