Sec. 1093. Critical infrastructure compatibility tabletop exercise
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation shall conduct a tabletop exercise designed to assess the resiliency of United States military installations and their surrounding communal capabilities to collaboratively confront weather disasters or adversarial threats made against the United States homeland. Tabletop exercises under this section shall be designed to— be planned and executed in a fully distributed, virtual format to ensure participation across geographically-dispersed organizations; involve trusted agents from installations and other stakeholders in a deliberate and methodical exercise planning process to address the critical tasks necessary to maintain military mission assurance; integrate policies, procedures, capabilities, and appropriate authorities to ensure mission assurance during and after cybersecurity events involving intelligent energy control systems, traffic control systems, and incident response systems; provide immediate access to exercise data for after action analysis and reporting; and include as participating organizations appropriate municipal, county, State, and national government entities, and public and private critical infrastructure service providers such as energy, water, wastewater, transportation, and communications, and others as appropriate.
A tabletop exercise required under subsection
(a)shall be designed to evaluate, at a minimum, the following elements: The resilience of community critical infrastructure to enhance, advance, and supplant that of surrounding military installations in the event of attacks upon military critical infrastructure. The ability of a military installation, in cooperation with community leadership, to coordinate efforts and operationalize available infrastructure and resources presented by defense communities in the area surrounding the military installation. State and Federal Government response options to ensure the viability of domestic critical infrastructure in the event of a long duration, widespread event. An assessment of the mobility of the United States Armed Forces from their installations in the event of an attack upon critical infrastructure and logistical chokepoints. The resiliency of United States military joint-all domain command and control to withstand attacks and— the ability of community assets to supplant partial or complete loss of command and control; and local, State, and Federal Government responses to partial or complete loss of such infrastructure. The importance of nonmilitary actions, including economic and financial measures, by the United States to prepare for, deter and, if necessary, respond to a contingency. In carrying out this section, the Director shall consult with the Secretaries of each of the military departments and the heads of appropriate Federal departments and agencies, as the Director determines appropriate. A tabletop exercise required under subsection
(a)shall be conducted at a location selected by the Director that is advantageous to studying cooperative efforts between military installations and the local communities. A tabletop exercise required under this section shall be prepared by appropriate personnel from the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, in cooperation with the Armed Forces. The participants in a tabletop exercise required under this section may include appropriate personnel of— the Department of the Defense; the military departments; the United States Northern Command; appropriate State agencies; relevant community installations; relevant think-tanks of the United States; and such other entities as the Director determines appropriate. Following the conclusion of the tabletop exercise required under subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, an provide to such committees a briefing, on the exercise. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include— an assessment of the decision-making, capability, and response gaps observed in the tabletop exercise; recommendations to improve the resiliency of, and reduce vulnerabilities in, the domestic critical infrastructure of the United States in the event of a military contingency; means to encourage collaboration and coordination between military installations and defense communities, including— resource planning; operational effects on land and airspace; legislative initiatives; housing availability; frequency spectrum capacity; the use and preservation of scarce natural resources; water quality and quantity; anti-terrorism and force protection; reducing dust, smoke, and steam elements; energy development projects; frequency spectrum enablers and enhancers; shared roadway capacity; and protecting the health and safety of nearby residents and workers; recommendations to enhance cooperation between military installations and local communities that promotes comprehensive community planning with attention to operational resiliency; and means to integrate the development policies, plans, and regulations of local jurisdictions and land management agencies with the plans of military installations. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the Senate. The term tabletop exercise means an activity— in which key personnel assigned high level roles and responsibilities are gathered to deliberate various simulated emergency or rapid response situations; and that is designed to be used to assess the adequacy of plans, policies, procedures, training, resources, and relationships or agreements that guide prevention of, response to, and recovery from a defined event.