Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§2349cc Findings

Title 22 › Chapter 32— FOREIGN ASSISTANCE › Subchapter II— MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES › Part X— Cyberspace, Digital Connectivity, and Related Technologies (CDT) Fund › § 2349cc

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Congress finds that digital, connected systems create new weak spots that attackers can exploit, which hurts the country's economy and security. Because these technologies spread quickly and are made and used around the world, United States security depends on other actors’ cyber practices. Helping other countries build civilian cyber skills can cut risks and boost national and economic security.

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Title 22, §2349cc

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Congress makes the following findings:

(1)Increasingly digitized and interconnected social, political, and economic systems have introduced new vulnerabilities for malicious actors to exploit, which threatens economic and national security.

(2)The rapid development, deployment, and integration of information and communication technologies into all aspects of modern life bring mounting risks of accidents and malicious activity involving such technologies, and their potential consequences.

(3)Because information and communication technologies are globally manufactured, traded, and networked, the economic and national security of the United State 11 So in original. Probably should be “States”. depends greatly on cybersecurity practices of other actors, including other countries.

(4)United States assistance to countries and international organizations to bolster civilian capacity to address national cybersecurity and deterrence in cyberspace can help—

(A)reduce vulnerability in the information and communication technologies ecosystem; and

(B)advance national and economic security objectives.

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22 U.S.C. § 2349cc

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60