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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jun 8, 2000
Requires the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive report detailing the specific steps taken by the Federal Government to develop infrastructure assurance strategies and the timetable for operationalizing and fully implementing critical information systems defense by May 2003.Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress a detailed report, in both classified and unclassified formats, on Department of Defense plans and programs to organize a coordinated defense against attacks on critical infrastructure and information-based systems, including: (1) a description of the current role of the Department in implementing Presidential Decision Directive No 63 (PDD-63); (2) a description of the manner in which the Department is integrating its various capabilities and assets, including the National Communications System, into an indications and warning architecture; (3) a description of Department work with the intelligence community to counter the threat of information warfare programs by potentially hostile foreign national governments and sub-national groups; and (4) an identification of the elements of a defense against an information warfare attack, including the integration of the Computer Network Attack Capability of the U.S. Space Command into the overall cyber-defense of the United States.
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Sen. Bennett, Robert F. [R-UT] · R–UT
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4846)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4845-4846)
Introduced in Senate
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