Sec. 1085. Homeland defense planning requirements
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Not later than February 15, 2025, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, in consultation with the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, shall submit to the designated recipients and the Commander of the United States Northern Command a detailed list of the defense critical assets in the United States that are assessed to be likely targets of an attack, including kinetic and non-kinetic attacks, in a major conflict with an adversary.
Not later than April 15, 2025, in consultation with relevant civilian agencies, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, shall submit to the designated recipients a report identifying and assessing the foreseeable requests for support from civilian agencies responsible for the defense of the defense critical assets detailed in the report submitted under subsection (a). The report shall include— each agency likely to request support; the existing capabilities of each agency to respond to and defend against a prospective attack; the specific capabilities requested, and an estimate of the number of Department of Defense personnel that would be required to provide those capabilities; an estimate of the cost for providing the requested Department of Defense support; and an estimate of the duration of support that could be provided in response to such requests, and an assessment of whether such support could be provided in a protracted scenario extending beyond 180 days.
Not later than June 1, 2025, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, in consultation with the Commander of the United States Cyber Command and the Commander of the United States Northern Command, shall submit to the designated recipients a report assessing the feasibility of providing support to the requests identified in the report submitted under subsection (b). The assessment shall address providing support to a request independently, concurrent with other related requests, and consecutive with other requests.
In this section, the term designated recipients means the Secretary of Defense, the Secretaries of the military departments, and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives.