Title: Department of Defense Principal Cyber Advisor Empowerment Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Department of Defense Principal Cyber Advisor Empowerment Act of 2021
This bill requires specified cyber officials in the Department of Defense to be designated from among the personnel of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. The bill applies to the officer to serve as Principal Cyber Advisor and the officer to serve concurrently as the Senior Military Advisor for Cyber Policy and as the Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3396 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3396

 To improve the position of the Principal Cyber Advisor, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2021

Mr. Rounds (for himself and Mr. Manchin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To improve the position of the Principal Cyber Advisor, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 Principal 
Cyber Advisor Empowerment Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF POSITION OF PRINCIPAL CYBER ADVISOR.

    (a) Designation of Principal Cyber Advisor.--Paragraph (1) of 
section 932(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2014 (Public Law 113-66; 10 U.S.C. 2224 note) is amended to read 
as follows:
            ``(1) Designation.--(A) The Secretary shall designate, from 
        among the personnel of the Office of the Under Secretary of 
        Defense for Policy, a Principal Cyber Advisor to act as the 
        principal advisor to the Secretary on military cyber forces and 
        activities.
            ``(B) The Secretary may only designate an official under 
        this paragraph if such official was appointed to the position 
        in which such official serves by and with the advice and 
        consent of the Senate.''.
    (b) Designation of Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor.--Section 
905(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2020 (Public Law 116-92; 10 U.S.C. 391 note) is amended by striking 
``Secretary of Defense'' and inserting ``Under Secretary of Defense for 
Policy''.
    (c) Briefing.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary of Defense shall brief the 
Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives on such recommendations as the 
Deputy Secretary may have for alternate reporting structures for the 
Principal Cyber Advisor and the Deputy Principal Cyber Advisor within 
the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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