Title: Department of Defense Emergency Response Capabilities Database Enhancement Act of 2017
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Department of Defense Emergency Response Capabilities Database Enhancement Act of 2017
This bill amends the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 to require the Department of Defense (DOD) to establish and maintain within one year a database of DOD emergency response capabilities that includes the cyber capabilities of the reserves and the National Guard of each state and territory that are important to national security and for response to domestic natural or man made disasters.
DOD may use or modify a current database or tracking system if that will expedite and achieve compliance at a cost not greater than the cost of establishing a new database.
DOD shall identify and revise the database information at least once every two years.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 307 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 307

   To enhance the database of emergency response capabilities of the 
                         Department of Defense.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 6, 2017

Mrs. Ernst (for herself, Mr. Coons, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mrs. Fischer) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To enhance the database of emergency response capabilities of the 
                         Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Defense Emergency 
Response Capabilities Database Enhancement Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF DATABASE OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAPABILITIES OF 
              THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

    (a) Deadline for Implementation of Database.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1406 of the John Warner National 
        Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-
        364; 120 Stat. 2436; 10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended by striking 
        ``The Secretary of Defense shall maintain'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(a) In General.--Commencing not later than one year after the 
date of the enactment of the Department of Defense Emergency Response 
Capabilities Database Enhancement Act of 2017, the Secretary of Defense 
shall establish and maintain''.
            (2) Use of existing database or system.--The Secretary of 
        Defense may meet the requirement in the amendment made by 
        paragraph (1) through use or modification of a current database 
        or tracking system of the Department of Defense if the 
        Secretary determines that such action will--
                    (A) expedite compliance with the requirement in 
                that amendment; and
                    (B) achieve such compliance at a cost not greater 
                than the cost of establishing anew the database covered 
                by the requirement in that amendment.
    (b) Information Required in Database.--Subsection (a) of such 
section, as designated by subsection (a)(1) of this section, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``each State's National Guard, as 
                reported by the States'' and inserting ``the National 
                Guard of each State and Territory, as reported by the 
                States and Territories''; and
                    (B) by striking ``home States'' and inserting 
                ``home States and Territories''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(3) Cyber capabilities of the National Guard that are 
        identified by the Department as important to national security 
        and for response to domestic natural or manmade disasters.
            ``(4) Cyber capabilities of the other reserve components of 
        the Armed Forces that are identified by the Department as 
        important to national security.''.
    (c) Information Required To Keep Database Current.--Such section is 
further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Information Required To Keep Database Current.--In 
implementing and maintaining the database required by subsection (a), 
the Secretary shall identify and revise the information required to be 
included in the database at least once every two years for purposes of 
keeping the database current.''.
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