Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§430d Cyber intelligence capability

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART I— - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › Chapter CHAPTER 21— - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MATTERS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL MATTERS › § 430d

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

By October 1, 2026, the Secretary of Defense, working with the Director of National Intelligence, must set up a dedicated cyber intelligence team to support military cyber missions for United States Cyber Command and other defense organizations. It must provide basic, technical, and all-source intelligence about cyber technology, capabilities, operations, and threat actors’ plans. The Secretary must avoid needless duplication. Budget requests starting with fiscal year 2027 must include money for this team, which will use funds for United States Cyber Command under the Military Intelligence Program. The National Security Agency may only give IT services to the team if those services are provided under the Military Intelligence Program or the Information Systems Security Program. “Defense budget materials” means the budget papers the Secretary sends to Congress for a fiscal year.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §430d

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Not later than October 1, 2026, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall ensure that the Department of Defense has a dedicated cyber intelligence capability in support of the military cyber operations requirements for the warfighting missions of the United States Cyber Command, the other combatant commands, the military departments, the Defense Agencies, the Joint Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense with respect to foundational, scientific and technical, and all-source intelligence on cyber technology development, capabilities, concepts of operation, operations, and plans and intentions of cyber threat actors.

(b)In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary may not unnecessarily duplicate intelligence activities of the Department of Defense.

(c)(1)The Secretary shall ensure the defense budget materials submitted for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2027 include a request for funds necessary to carry out subsection (a).

(2)The Secretary shall carry out subsection (a) using funds made available for the United States Cyber Command under the Military Intelligence Program.

(3)The National Security Agency may not provide information technology services for the dedicated cyber intelligence capability under subsection (a) unless such services are provided under the Military Intelligence Program or the Information Systems Security Program.

(d)In this section, the term “defense budget materials”, with respect to a fiscal year, means the materials submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Defense in support of the budget for that fiscal year.

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10 U.S.C. § 430d

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73