IIB 

115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5733 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 26, 2018 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 

for the responsibility of the National Cybersecurity and 

Communications Integration Center to maintain capabilities to identify threats to industrial control systems, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Industrial Con3 trol Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2018’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CAPABILITIES OF NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY AND 

5 COMMUNICATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER TO 

6 IDENTIFY THREATS TO INDUSTRIAL CON7 TROL SYSTEMS. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 227 of the Homeland Se9 curity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148) is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (e)(1)— 

11 (A) in subparagraph (G), by striking 

12 ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 

13 (B) in subparagraph (H), by inserting 

14 ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 

15 (C) by adding at the end the following new 

16 subparagraph: 

17 ‘‘(I) activities of the Center address the se18 curity of both information technology and oper19 ational technology, including industrial control 

20 systems;’’; 

21 (2) by redesignating subsections (f) through 

22 (m) as subsections (g) through (n), respectively; and 

23 (3) by inserting after subsection (d) the fol24 lowing new subsection: 

25 ‘‘(f) INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS.—The Center 

26 shall maintain capabilities to identify and address threats 


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1 and vulnerabilities to products and technologies intended 

2 for use in the automated control of critical infrastructure 

3 processes. In carrying out this subsection, the Center 

4 shall— 

5 ‘‘(1) lead, in coordination with relevant sector 

6 specific agencies, Federal Government efforts to 

7 identify and mitigate cybersecurity threats to indus8 trial control systems, including supervisory control 

9 and data acquisition systems; 

10 ‘‘(2) maintain cross-sector incident response ca11 pabilities to respond to industrial control system cy12 bersecurity incidents; 

13 ‘‘(3) provide cybersecurity technical assistance 

14 to industry end-users, product manufacturers, and 

15 other industrial control system stakeholders to iden16 tify and mitigate vulnerabilities; 

17 ‘‘(4) collect, coordinate, and provide vulner18 ability information to the industrial control systems 

19 community by, as appropriate, working closely with 

20 security researchers, industry end-users, product 

21 manufacturers, and other industrial control systems 

22 stakeholders; and 

23 ‘‘(5) conduct such other efforts and assistance 

24 as the Secretary determines appropriate.’’. 


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1 (b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 180 days 

2 after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 

3 months thereafter during the subsequent 4-year period, 

4 the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integra5 tion Center shall provide to the Committee on Homeland 

6 Security of the House of Representatives and the Com7 mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

8 of the Senate a briefing on the industrial control systems 

9 capabilities of the Center under subsection (f) of section 

10 227 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 

11 148), as added by subsection (a). 

Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2018. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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