Sec. 1505. Future force employment concepts development tabletop exercises
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Not later than September 1, 2026, the Secretary of Defense shall, acting through the covered officials, conduct one or more tabletop exercises to develop and evaluate concepts for operational employment of cyber capabilities by cyber forces of the Department of Defense under development that would be implemented after the period covered by the most recent future-years defense program submitted to Congress under section 221 of title 10, United States Code and the implementation of the revised force generation model established under section 1533(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ; 10 U.S.C. 167b(c) ).
The tabletop exercises required under subsection
(a)shall— evaluate of future force employment concepts of the cyber forces of the Department of Defense, including— identifying and assessing additional elements of the Cyber Operations Force in various geographic combatant command operational scenarios to provide tactical-level effects, or integration with non-cyber tactical units, using radio-frequency enabled cyber or other off-net cyber operations techniques; assessing new or novel formations outside of the current construction of the Cyber Mission Force; and experimenting with other doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities, and policy approaches for cyber activities and operations or other non-kinetic actions that include cyber actions outside of the current approach of the Cyber Mission Force for on-net operations; and assess different models for command and control for such future force employment concepts, including integrating asscoaited cyber forces into non-cyber units of the Department of Defense on a temporary, or permanent basis. Not later than January 1, 2027, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the results and findings from the tabletop exercises conducted under subsection
(a)and include the recommendations of the Secretary, if any, regarding matters described in subsections
(a)and (b). In this section, the term covered officials means— the Secretaries of the military departments; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy; and the Commander of United States Cyber Command.
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