SEC. 2. FEDERAL INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP ON THE 
GLOBAL INFORMATION DOMAIN. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Executive Office of the President a working group to be 
known as the Federal Interagency Working Group on the 
Global Information Domain (in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Working Group’’). 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Working Group shall be 
composed of no less than six members appointed by 
the President and chosen from among the following: 
(A) Members of the National Security 
Council described or designated by the Presi-
dent under section 101(c)(1) of the National 
Security Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 3021(c)(1)). 
(B) Any officer described in section 
101(c)(2) of the National Security Act of 1950 
(50 U.S.C. 3021(c)(2)). 
(C) Any position identified as a ‘‘member’’ 
or ‘‘regular attendee’’ of the National Security 
Council in a presidential directive establishing 
the structure and function of the National Se-
curity Council. 
(2) DESIGNATES.—Members of the Working 
Group, acting in their official capacity, may des-
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ignate employees with authority to act on their be-
half. 
(3) CHAIRPERSON.—The Chairperson of the 
Working Group shall be appointed by the President. 
(c) DIRECTOR; STAFF.— 
(1) DIRECTOR.—The Working Group shall have 
a Director who shall be appointed by the Chair-
person. 
(2) STAFF.—The Director may appoint and fix 
the pay of additional personnel as the Director con-
siders appropriate. 
(3) DUTIES.—The duties of the Director and 
staff shall be to achieve the goals and carry out the 
duties of the Working Group. 
(d) NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE GLOBAL INFOR-
MATION DOMAIN.— 
(1) DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL STRATEGY.— 
The primary goal of the Working Group is to de-
velop a national strategy for the global information 
domain which shall include, at a minimum the fol-
lowing: 
(A) A prioritization of the global informa-
tion domain as an arena for international com-
petition vital to the national security of the 
United States. 
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(B) A description of how adversarial state 
and non-state actors are attempting to define 
and control the global information domain in 
order to achieve the goals of shaping global 
opinion and achieving strategic advantage. 
(C) A description of the critical role of ar-
tificial intelligence-enabled malign information 
in the efforts of adversarial state and non-state 
actors to achieve the goals described in sub-
paragraph (B). 
(D) An identification of and prioritization 
of actions to defend, counter, and compete 
against malign information operations as a na-
tional security threat. 
(E) As necessary, recommendations for 
any update to critical infrastructure designa-
tions identified by Presidential Policy Directive 
21 and a recommendation for the relevant de-
partments and agencies to update sector-spe-
cific plans to reflect emerging technologies. 
(F) A recommendation for organizational 
structures for national security agencies to 
counter and compete against the threat. 
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(2) CLASSIFIED ANNEX.—The National Strat-
egy required by paragraph (1) may include a classi-
fied annex. 
(3) DEADLINE.—Not later than 270 days after 
the date of the enactment of this section, the Presi-
dent shall transmit to Congress the national strategy 
required by paragraph (1). 
(e) SUNSET.—The Working Group shall terminate 
not later than 3 months after the date on which the na-
tional strategy is transmitted pursuant to subsection 
(d)(1). 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term 
‘‘critical infrastructure’’ has the meaning given that 
term in section 1016(e) of the Critical Infrastruc-
tures Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)). 
(2) GLOBAL INFORMATION DOMAIN.—The term 
‘‘global information domain’’ means a sphere of stra-
tegic competition in which state and non-state actors 
create, obtain, fuse, analyze, distort, transfer, ex-
change, or disseminate information, overtly or cov-
ertly, to influence public opinion for national secu-
rity, geopolitical, or economic purposes. 
(3) NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘national security agency’’ has the meaning given 
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that term in section 681 of the Communications 
Satellite Act of 1962 (47 U.S.C. 769(a)). 
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