COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF NETWORK FLOW DATA.

SEC. 935. [10 U.S.C. 2223 note] COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OF NETWORK FLOW DATA. (a) Development of Technologies.—The Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense may, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and acting through the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, use the available funding and research activities and capabilities of the Community Data Center of the Defense Information Systems Agency to develop and demonstrate collection, processing, and storage technologies for network flow data that— (1) are potentially scalable to the volume used by Tier 1 Internet Service Providers to collect and analyze the flow data across their networks; (2) will substantially reduce the cost and complexity of capturing and analyzing high volumes of flow data; and (3) support the capability— (A) to detect and identify cyber security threats, networks of compromised computers, and command and control sites used for managing illicit cyber operations and receiving information from compromised computers; (B) to track illicit cyber operations for attribution of the source; and (C) to provide early warning and attack assessment of offensive cyber operations. (b) Coordination.—Any research and development required in the development of the technologies described in subsection (a) shall be conducted in cooperation with the heads of other appropriate departments and agencies of the Federal Government and, whenever feasible, Tier 1 Internet Service Providers and other managed security service providers.