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6 U.S.C. § 677c — Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Initiative
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **In general** — The Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Initiative (in this section referred to as the “Initiative”) is established within the Agency.
(2) **Purpose** — The purpose of the Initiative is to develop and strengthen the skills of the cybersecurity workforce related to securing industrial control systems.
**(b) Requirements** In carrying out the Initiative, the Director shall—
(1) ensure the Initiative includes—
(A) virtual and in-person trainings and courses provided at no cost to participants;
(B) trainings and courses available at different skill levels, including introductory level courses;
(C) trainings and courses that cover cyber defense strategies for industrial control systems, including an understanding of the unique cyber threats facing industrial control systems and the mitigation of security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems technology; and
(D) appropriate consideration regarding the availability of trainings and courses in different regions of the United States; and 11 So in original. The word “and” probably should not appear.
(2) engage in—
(A) collaboration with the National Laboratories of the Department of Energy in accordance with [section 189 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section189&num=0&edition=prelim);
(B) consultation with Sector Risk Management Agencies;22 So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”.
(C) as appropriate, consultation with private sector entities with relevant expertise, such as vendors of industrial control systems technologies; and
(3) consult, to the maximum extent practicable, with commercial training providers and academia to minimize the potential for duplication of other tr
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **In general** — The Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Training Initiative (in this section referred to as the “Initiative”) is established within the Agency.
(2) **Purpose** — The purpose of the Initiative is to develop and strengthen the skills of the cybersecurity workforce related to securing industrial control systems.
**(b) Requirements** In carrying out the Initiative, the Director shall—
(1) ensure the Initiative includes—
(A) virtual and in-person trainings and courses provided at no cost to participants;
(B) trainings and courses available at different skill levels, including introductory level courses;
(C) trainings and courses that cover cyber defense strategies for industrial control systems, including an understanding of the unique cyber threats facing industrial control systems and the mitigation of security vulnerabilities in industrial control systems technology; and
(D) appropriate consideration regarding the availability of trainings and courses in different regions of the United States; and 11 So in original. The word “and” probably should not appear.
(2) engage in—
(A) collaboration with the National Laboratories of the Department of Energy in accordance with [section 189 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section189&num=0&edition=prelim);
(B) consultation with Sector Risk Management Agencies;22 So in original. Probably should be followed by “and”.
(C) as appropriate, consultation with private sector entities with relevant expertise, such as vendors of industrial control systems technologies; and
(3) consult, to the maximum extent practicable, with commercial training providers and academia to minimize the potential for duplication of other training opportunities.
**(c) Reports**
(1) **In general** — Not later than one year after December 23, 2022, and annually thereafter, the Director shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate a report on the Initiative.
(2) **Contents** — Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(A) A description of the courses provided under the Initiative.
(B) A description of outreach efforts to raise awareness of the availability of such courses.
(C) The number of participants in each course.
(D) Voluntarily provided information on the demographics of participants in such courses, including by sex, race, and place of residence.
(E) Information on the participation in such courses of workers from each critical infrastructure sector.
(F) Plans for expanding access to industrial control systems education and training, including expanding access to women and underrepresented populations, and expanding access to different regions of the United States.
(G) Recommendations regarding how to strengthen the state of industrial control systems cybersecurity education and training.
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The Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall have the responsibility for—
(1) advising the Secretary regarding research and development efforts and priorities in support of the Department’s missions;
(2) developing, in consultation with other appropriate executive agencies, a national policy and strategic plan for, identifying priorities, goals, objectives and policies for, and coordinating the Federal Government’s civilian efforts to identify and develop countermeasures to chemical, biological, and other emerging terrorist threats, including the development of comprehensive, research-based definable goals for such efforts and development of annual measurable objectives and specific targets to accomplish and evaluate the goals for such efforts;
(3) supporting the Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis and the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, by assessing and testing homeland security vulnerabilities and possible threats;
(4) conducting basic and applied research, development, demonstration, testing, and evaluation activities that are relevant to any or all elements of the Department, through both intramural and extramural programs, except that such responsibility does not extend to human health-related research and development activities;
(5) establishing priorities for, directing, funding, and conducting national research, development, test and evaluation, and procurement of technology and systems for—
(A) preventing the importation of chemical, biological, and related weapons and material; and
(B) detecting, preventing, protecting against, and responding to terrorist attacks;
(6) establishing a system for transferring homeland security developments or technologies to Federal, St
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 677d
amounts available in the Fund, and amounts
available in the Fund shall be in addition to
any other appropriations available to the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency for such purpose.
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XXII, § 2233, as added Pub.
L. 117–58, div. G, title VI, § 70602(a), Nov. 15, 2021,
135 Stat. 1268.)
§ 677c. Cyber Response and Recovery Fund
(a) In general
There is established a Cyber Response and Re-
covery Fund, which shall be available for—
(1) the coordination of activities described in
section 677b(b) of this title;
(2) response and recovery support for the
specific significant incident associated with a
declaration to Federal, State, local, and Trib-
al, entities and public and private entities on
a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis, in-
cluding through asset response activities and
technical assistance, such as—
(A) vulnerability assessments and mitiga-
tion;
(B) technical incident mitigation;
(C) malware analysis;
(D) analytic support;
(E) threat detection and hunting; and
(F) network protections;
(3) as the Director determines appropriate,
grants for, or cooperative agreements with,
Federal, State, local, and Tribal public and
private entities to respond to, and recover
from, the specific significant incident associ-
ated with a declaration, such as—
(A) hardware or software to replace, up-
date, improve, harden, or enhance the
functionality of existing hardware, software,
or systems; and
(B) technical contract personnel support;
and
(4) advance actions taken by the Secretary
under section 677b(f)(1)(B) of this title.
(b) Deposits and expenditures
(1) In general
Amounts shall be deposited into the Fund
from—
(A) appropriations to the Fund for activi-
ties of th
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