POLICY ON PROTECTION OF NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AGAINST STRATEGIC ATTACK.

SEC. 1061. POLICY ON PROTECTION OF NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AGAINST STRATEGIC ATTACK. (a) Report Requirement.— Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to Congress a report setting forth a national policy on protecting the national information infrastructure against strategic attack. (b) Matters To Be Included.— The policy described in the report shall include the following: (1) Plans to meet essential Government and civilian needs during a national security emergency associated with a strategic attack on elements of the national information infrastructure the functioning of which depend on networked computer systems. (2) The identification of information infrastructure functions that must be performed during such an emergency. (3) The assignment of responsibilities to Federal departments and agencies, and a description of the roles of Government and industry, relating to indications and warning of, assessment of, response to, and reconstitution after, potential strategic attacks on the elements of the national information infrastructure described under paragraph (1). (c) Unresolved Issues.— The report shall also identify— (1) matters relating to the national policy described in the report that, as of the submission of the report, are in need of further study and resolution, such as technology and funding shortfalls; and 110 STAT. 2652 (2) legal and regulatory considerations relating to the national policy. (d) Update of Earlier Report.— The report shall include an update of the report required to be submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1053 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104–106; 110 Stat. 440).