the data breach (particularly regarding information 
included in background investigations for security 
clearances), including with respect to— 
(A) recruiting intelligence assets; 
(B) influencing decisionmaking processes 
within the Federal Government, including re-
garding foreign policy decisions; and 
(C) compromising employees of the Fed-
eral Government and friends and families of 
such employees for the purpose of gaining ac-
cess to sensitive national security and economic 
information. 
(4) An assessment of which departments or 
agencies of the Federal Government use the best 
practices to protect sensitive data, including a sum-
mary of any such best practices that were not used 
by the Office of Personnel Management. 
(5) An assessment of the best practices used by 
the departments or agencies identified under para-
graph (4) to identify and fix potential vulnerabilities 
in the systems of the department or agency. 
(c) BRIEFING.—The Director of National Intelligence 
shall provide to the congressional intelligence committees 
an interim briefing on the report under subsection (a), in-
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cluding a discussion of proposals and options for respond-
ing to cyber attacks. 
(d) FORM.—The report under subsection (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classi-
fied annex. 
SEC. 706. REPORT ON HIRING OF GRADUATES OF CYBER 
CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM BY INTEL-
LIGENCE COMMUNITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence, in coordination with the Director of the Na-
tional Science Foundation, shall submit to the congres-
sional intelligence committees a report on the employment 
by the intelligence community of graduates of the Cyber 
Corps Scholarship Program. The report shall include the 
following: 
(1) The number of graduates of the Cyber 
Corps Scholarship Program hired by each element of 
the intelligence community. 
(2) A description of how each element of the in-
telligence community recruits graduates of the Cyber 
Corps Scholar Program. 
(3) A description of any processes available to 
the intelligence community to expedite the hiring or 
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processing of security clearances for graduates of 
the Cyber Corps Scholar Program. 
(4) Recommendations by the Director of Na-
tional Intelligence to improve the hiring by the intel-
ligence community of graduates of the Cyber Corps 
Scholarship Program, including any recommenda-
tions for legislative action to carry out such improve-
ments. 
(b) CYBER CORPS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Cyber Corps Scholar-
ship Program’’ means the Federal Cyber Scholarship-for- 
Service Program under section 302 of the Cybersecurity 
Enhancement Act of 2014 (15 U.S.C. 7442). 
SEC. 707. REPORT ON USE OF CERTAIN BUSINESS CON-
CERNS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
Intelligence shall submit to the congressional intelligence 
committees a report on the representation, as of the date 
of the report, of covered business concerns among the con-
tractors that are awarded contracts by elements of the in-
telligence community for goods, equipment, tools, and 
services. 
(b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
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(1) The representation of covered business con-
cerns as described in subsection (a), including such 
representation by— 
(A) each type of covered business concern; 
and 
(B) each element of the intelligence com-
munity. 
(2) If, as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Director does not record and monitor the 
statistics required to carry out this section, a de-
scription of the actions taken by the Director to en-
sure that such statistics are recorded and monitored 
beginning in fiscal year 2016. 
(3) The actions the Director plans to take dur-
ing fiscal year 2016 to enhance the awarding of con-
tracts to covered business concerns by elements of 
the intelligence community. 
(c) COVERED BUSINESS CONCERNS DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘covered business concerns’’ means 
the following: 
(1) Minority-owned businesses. 
(2) Women-owned businesses. 
(3) Small disadvantaged businesses. 
(4) Service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. 
(5) Veteran-owned small businesses. 
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Subtitle B—Other Matters 
SEC. 711. USE OF HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT FUNDS IN 
CONJUNCTION WITH DEPARTMENT OF EN-
ERGY NATIONAL LABORATORIES. 
Section 2008(a) of the Homeland Security Act of 
2002 (6 U.S.C. 609(a)) is amended in the matter pre-
ceding paragraph (1) by inserting ‘‘including by working 
in conjunction with a National Laboratory (as defined in 
section 2(3) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 
15801(3))),’’ after ‘‘plans,’’. 
SEC. 712. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN MINORITY-SERVING IN-
STITUTIONS IN GRANT PROGRAM TO EN-
HANCE RECRUITING OF INTELLIGENCE COM-
MUNITY WORKFORCE. 
Section 1024 of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 3224) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘histori-
cally black colleges and universities and Pre-
dominantly Black Institutions’’ and inserting 
‘‘historically black colleges and universities, 
Predominantly Black Institutions, Hispanic- 
serving institutions, and Asian American and 
Native American Pacific Islander-serving insti-
tutions’’; and 
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(B) in the subsection heading, by striking 
‘‘HISTORICALLY BLACK’’ and inserting ‘‘CER-
TAIN MINORITY-SERVING’’; and 
(2) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (7); and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following new paragraphs (5) and (6): 
‘‘(5) 
HISPANIC-SERVING
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘Hispanic-serving institution’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 502(a)(5) of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a(a)(5)). 
‘‘(6) ASIAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN 
PACIFIC
ISLANDER-SERVING
INSTITUTION.—The 
term ‘Asian American and Native American Pacific 
Islander-serving institution’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 320(b)(2) of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059g(b)(2)).’’. 
Æ 
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