A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 
for the responsibility of the National Cybersecurity and 
Communications Integration Center to maintain capabili-
ties to identify threats to industrial control systems, and 
for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Industrial Control 
Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. CAPABILITIES OF NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY AND 
COMMUNICATIONS INTEGRATION CENTER TO 
IDENTIFY THREATS TO INDUSTRIAL CON-
TROL SYSTEMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 227 of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (e)(1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (H), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) activities of the Center address the se-
curity of both information technology and oper-
ational technology, including industrial control 
systems;’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (m) 
as subsections (g) through (n), respectively; and 
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(3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(f) INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS.—The Center 
shall maintain capabilities to identify and address threats 
and vulnerabilities to products and technologies intended 
for use in the automated control of critical infrastructure 
processes. In carrying out this subsection, the Center shall— 
‘‘(1) lead, in coordination with relevant sector 
specific agencies, Federal Government efforts to iden-
tify and mitigate cybersecurity threats to industrial 
control systems, including supervisory control and 
data acquisition systems; 
‘‘(2) maintain cross-sector incident response ca-
pabilities to respond to industrial control system cy-
bersecurity incidents; 
‘‘(3) provide cybersecurity technical assistance to 
industry end-users, product manufacturers, and other 
industrial control system stakeholders to identify and 
mitigate vulnerabilities; 
‘‘(4) collect, coordinate, and provide vulner-
ability information to the industrial control systems 
community by, as appropriate, working closely with 
security researchers, industry end-users, product man-
ufacturers, and other industrial control systems stake-
holders; and 
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‘‘(5) conduct such other efforts and assistance as 
the Secretary determines appropriate.’’. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 
months thereafter during the subsequent four-year period, 
the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integra-
tion Center shall provide to the Committee on Homeland 
Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the 
Senate a briefing on the industrial control systems capabili-
ties of the Center under subsection (f) of section 227 of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 148), as added 
by subsection (a). 
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Union Calendar No. 603 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5733 
[Report No. 115–777] 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to 
provide for the responsibility of the National Cy-
bersecurity and Communications Integration 
Center to maintain capabilities to identify threats 
to industrial control systems, and for other pur-
poses. 
JUNE 22, 2018 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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