[USC07] 10 USC 2224: Defense Information Assurance Program
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10 USC 2224: Defense Information Assurance Program
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From Title 10-ARMED FORCES
Subtitle A-General Military Law
PART IV-SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
CHAPTER 131-PLANNING AND COORDINATION
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§2224. Defense Information Assurance Program
(a) DEFENSE INFORMATION ASSURANCE PROGRAM.-The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a program, to be known as the
"Defense Information Assurance Program", to protect and defend Department of Defense information, information
systems, and information networks that are critical to the Department and the armed forces during day-to-day
operations and operations in times of crisis.
(b) O
BJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM.-The objectives of the program shall be to provide continuously for the availability,
integrity, authentication, confidentiality, nonrepudiation, and rapid restitution of information and information systems that
are essential elements of the Defense Information Infrastructure.
(c) P
ROGRAM STRATEGY.-In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall develop a program strategy that encompasses
those actions necessary to assure the readiness, reliability, continuity, and integrity of Defense information systems,
networks, and infrastructure, including through compliance with subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 44, including through
compliance with subchapter III of chapter 35 of title 44. The program strategy shall include the following:
(1) A vulnerability and threat assessment of elements of the defense and supporting nondefense information
infrastructures that are essential to the operations of the Department and the armed forces.
(2) Development of essential information assurances technologies and programs.
(3) Organization of the Department, the armed forces, and supporting activities to defend against information
warfare.
(4) Joint activities of the Department with other departments and agencies of the Government, State and local
agencies, and elements of the national information infrastructure.
(5) The conduct of exercises, war games, simulations, experiments, and other activities designed to prepare the
Department to respond to information warfare threats.
(6) Development of proposed legislation that the Secretary considers necessary for implementing the program or
for otherwise responding to the information warfare threat.
(d) C
OORDINATION.-In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall coordinate, as appropriate, with the head of any
relevant Federal agency and with representatives of those national critical information infrastructure systems that are
essential to the operations of the Department and the armed forces on information assurance measures necessary to
the protection of these systems.
[(e) Repealed. Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title X, §1031(a)(12), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1597 .]
(f) I
NFORMATION ASSURANCE TEST BED.-The Secretary shall develop an information assurance test bed within the
Department of Defense to provide-
(1) an integrated organization structure to plan and facilitate the conduct of simulations, war games, exercises,
experiments, and other activities to prepare and inform the Department regarding information warfare threats; and
(2) organization and planning means for the conduct by the Department of the integrated or joint exercises and
experiments with elements of the national information systems infrastructure and other non-Department of Defense
organizations that are responsible for the oversight and management of critical information systems and
infrastructures on which the Department, the armed forces, and supporting activities depend for the conduct of daily
operations and operations during crisis.
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2012 Ed. and Supplement IV (1/6/2017)
