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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 119 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a study on the 
feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense National Guard. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2021 
Ms. JACKSON LEE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence 
A BILL 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to conduct 
a study on the feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense 
National Guard. 
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 ‘‘Cyber Defense Na-
tional Guard Act’’. 
SEC. 2. STUDY ON ESTABLISHMENT OF CYBER DEFENSE 
NATIONAL GUARD. 
(a) STUDY.—The Director of National Intelligence, 
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, shall conduct a study on the 
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feasibility of establishing a Cyber Defense National 
Guard. 
(b) CONTENTS.—The study required under sub-
section (a) shall include an analysis of— 
(1) the cost of creating a Cyber Defense Na-
tional Guard; 
(2) the number of persons who would be needed 
to defend the critical infrastructure of the United 
States from a cyber attack or manmade intentional 
or unintentional catastrophic incident; 
(3) the sources of potential members of a Cyber 
Defense National Guard, including industry, aca-
demic institutions, research facilities, and Federal 
contractors; 
(4) which elements of the Federal Government 
would be best equipped to recruit, train, and manage 
a Cyber Defense National Guard; 
(5) the criteria required for persons to serve in 
a Cyber Defense National Guard; 
(6) if an incident disrupts communications in a 
region or area, what resources can be pre-positioned 
and training instilled to assure the effectiveness and 
responsiveness of a Cyber Defense National Guard; 
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(7) the minimum requirements for consider-
ation for inclusion in a Cyber Defense National 
Guard; 
(8) the impact of the effectiveness of a Cyber 
Defense National Guard of the possibility that the 
population of potential recruits may be dominated by 
men and women without military, intelligence, law 
enforcement, or government work experience; 
(9) the recruitment and vetting costs for a 
Cyber Defense National Guard; 
(10) the frequency of cyber defense and unit co-
hesion training; 
(11) how well military discipline is able to be 
adapted for use for creating command and control 
systems and protocols for a Cyber Defense National 
Guard; 
(12) the logistics of allowing governors to use 
the Cyber Defense National Guard in States during 
times of cyber emergency; 
(13) the advantages and disadvantages of cre-
ating a Cyber Defense National Guard on the cyber 
security of the United States; and 
(14) whether a force trained to defend the net-
works of the United States in the event of a major 
attack or natural or manmade disaster will benefit 
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overall efforts to defend the interests of the United 
States. 
(c) REPORT.— 
(1) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 240 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of National Intelligence, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Homeland Security, shall submit to the Committee 
on Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Se-
curity, the Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, and the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Armed Services, the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs, the Select Committee 
on Intelligence, and the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate a report containing the results of the 
study required under subsection (a). 
(2) FORM.—The report required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may include a classified annex. 
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