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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6824 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 17, 2022 

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

Governmental Affairs 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 

Agency of the Department of Homeland Security to hold 

an annual cybersecurity competition relating to offensive 

and defensive cybersecurity disciplines, 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 ‘‘President’s Cup Cyber3 security Competition Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PRESIDENT’S CUP CYBERSECURITY COMPETITION. 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Cybersecurity 

6 and Infrastructure Security Agency (in this section re7 ferred to as the ‘‘Director’’) of the Department of Home8 land Security is authorized to hold an annual cybersecu9 rity competition to be known as the ‘‘Department of 

10 Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Se11 curity Agency’s President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competi12 tion’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘competition’’) for 

13 the purpose of identifying, challenging, and competitively 

14 awarding prizes, including cash prizes, to the United 

15 States Government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and 

16 teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity dis17 ciplines. 

18 (b) COMPETITION DESIGN.— 

19 (1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 

20 1342 of title 31, United States Code, the Director, 

21 in carrying out the competition, may consult with, 

22 and consider advice from, any person who has expe23 rience or expertise in the development, design, or 

24 execution of cybersecurity competitions. 


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1 (2) LIMITATION.—The Federal Advisory Com2 mittee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to con3 sultations pursuant to this section. 

4 (3) PROHIBITION.—A person with whom the 

5 Director consults under paragraph (1) may not— 

6 (A) receive pay by reason of being so con7 sulted; or 

8 (B) be considered an employee of the Fed9 eral Government by reason of so consulting. 

10 (c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to participate in the 

11 competition, an individual shall be a Federal civilian em12 ployee or member of the uniformed services (as such term 

13 is defined in section 2101(3) of title 5, United States 

14 Code) and shall comply with any rules promulgated by the 

15 Director regarding the competition. 

16 (d) COMPETITION ADMINISTRATION.—The Director 

17 may enter into a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, 

18 or other agreement with a private sector for-profit or non19 profit entity or State or local government agency to ad20 minister the competition. 

21 (e) COMPETITION PARAMETERS.—Each competition 

22 shall incorporate the following elements: 

23 (1) Cybersecurity skills outlined in the National 

24 Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Framework, 

25 or any successor framework. 


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1 (2) Individual and team events. 

2 (3) Categories demonstrating offensive and de3 fensive cyber operations, such as software reverse 

4 engineering and exploitation, network operations, 

5 forensics, big data analysis, cyber analysis, cyber de6 fense, cyber exploitation, secure programming, ob7 fuscated coding, or cyber-physical systems. 

8 (4) Any other elements related to paragraphs 

9 (1), (2), or (3) as determined necessary by the Di10 rector. 

11 (f) USE OF FUNDS.— 

12 (1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 

13 provision of law, the Director may use amounts 

14 made available to the Director for the competition 

15 for the following: 

16 (A) Advertising, marketing, and promoting 

17 the competition. 

18 (B) Meals for participants and organizers 

19 of the competition if attendance at the meal 

20 during the competition is necessary to maintain 

21 the integrity of the competition. 

22 (C) Promotional items, including merchan23 dise and apparel. 


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1 (D) Monetary and nonmonetary awards for 

2 competition participants, including members of 

3 the uniformed services. 

4 (E) Necessary expenses for the honorary 

5 recognition of competition participants, includ6 ing members of the uniformed services. 

7 (F) Any other appropriate activity nec8 essary to carry out the competition, as deter9 mined by the Director. 

10 (2) APPLICATION.—This subsection shall apply 

11 to amounts appropriated on or after the date of the 

12 enactment of this Act. 

13 (g) PRIZE LIMITATION.—The Director may make one 

14 or more awards per competition, except that the amount 

15 or value of each shall not exceed $10,000. The Secretary 

16 of Homeland Security may make one or more awards per 

17 competition, except the amount or the value of each shall 

18 not to exceed $25,000. A monetary award under this sec19 tion shall be in addition to the regular pay of the recipient. 

20 (h) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—The Director shall 

21 annually provide to the Committee on Homeland Security 

22 of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 

23 Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen24 ate a report that includes the following: 


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1 (1) A description of available funds under sub2 section (f) for each competition conducted in the 

3 preceding year. 

4 (2) A description of expenditures authorized in 

5 subsection (g) for each competition. 

6 (3) Information relating to the participation of 

7 each competition. 

8 (4) Information relating to lessons learned from 

9 each competition and how such lessons may be ap10 plied to improve cybersecurity operations and re11 cruitment of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure 

12 Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Se13 curity. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 16, 2022. 

Attest: CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 

Clerk. 


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