Sec. 931. IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FOR JOINT INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT

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## SEC. 931 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FOR JOINT INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT ###

(a)Implementation Strategy Not later than March 31, 2013, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a strategy for implementing the Joint Information Environment. Such strategy shall include— ####

(1)a description for the vision for the Joint Information Environment, including a roadmap for achieving such vision from the existing baseline architecture; ####

(2)an assessment of the key milestones, metrics, and resources needed to achieve such vision, including the anticipated implementation cost and lifecycle cost savings of the Joint Information Environment; ####

(3)a description of the acquisition strategy and management plan for implementing the Joint Information Environment; ####

(4)an analysis of the key technical and policy challenges that must be addressed to achieve such vision, including assignment of responsibility for addressing such challenges; ####

(5)an identification of dependencies with existing initiatives or programs and capability gaps not currently addressed by funded initiatives or programs; and ####

(6)an assessment of the personnel challenges associated with manning, training, operating, defending, and fighting in the Joint Information Environment as a command and control and weapon system. ###

(b)Personnel Plan Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a Department-wide personnel plan for making the Joint Information Environment operational. Such personnel plan shall be based on the strategy required under subsection

(a)and shall include a validated Joint Staff requirement for manpower levels and the levels required for each of the military departments and combat support agencies needed for full spectrum cyber operations, including the national cyber defense mission and the operational plans of the combatant commands, for each fiscal year across the current future-years defense program.