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Establishment of Army Information Operations Center of Excellence

Division A · Title X: General Provisions · Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Authorities and Limitations

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The Army will create a new Information Operations Center of Excellence to coordinate and improve its information operations, such as electronic warfare and public affairs, across different commands. This center will provide training, develop doctrine, assess ongoing activities, and advocate for resources to ensure these operations work together effectively. The Army must also submit a plan within 180 days detailing how the center will be set up and report annually on its activities to Congress.

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(a) Findings

Congress finds the following:

(1)

The information environment has emerged as a decisive domain of strategic competition in which adversaries of the United States operate continuously and below the threshold of armed conflict.

(2)

Components of Army information operations, including military information support operations, electronic warfare, public affairs, and cyberspace operations, remain organizationally fragmented, hindering the translation of national-level strategy into synchronized operational and tactical action.

(3)

Following the inactivation of the 1st Information Operations Command of the Army, the Department of the Army is undertaking a significant reorganization of its information operations enterprise, including the establishment of region-specific Theater Information Advantage Detachments aligned with Multi-Domain Task Forces.

(4)

A dedicated Center of Excellence would improve the translation of national-level information strategies into operational campaigns and theater-tailored tactical activities, advance doctrine, evaluate efficacy, and advocate for resourcing. It would also aid the Army during its reorganization process, facilitating coordination and resource allocation across its information operations enterprise.

(b) Establishment

Chapter 703 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 7024 the following new section:

7025. Army Information Operations Center of Excellence

(a) Establishment

The Secretary of the Army shall operate the Army Information Operations Center of Excellence. The purpose of the Center shall be to serve as the lead organization of the Army for the integration, synchronization, and advancement of information operations across the operational and tactical levels, in support of national and combatant command objectives.

(b) Purpose

The Center shall be used to—

(1)

Coordinate and synchronize Army information operations objectives across the geographic and functional combatant commands.

(2)

Provide training and operational planning support for information operations campaigns at the operational level.

(3)

Develop, revise, and disseminate doctrine for Army information operations, ensuring that doctrine evolves in step with on-the-ground developments and emerging threats.

(4)

Assess the efficacy of ongoing Army information operations activities and inform resourcing recommendations to senior Army leadership.

(5)

Advocate for the resourcing of critical information operations requirements within the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process of the Army.

(6)

Integrate the activities of the components of Army information operations, including military information support operations, electronic warfare, public affairs, and cyberspace operations, to ensure that such components operate in a coordinated, mutually reinforcing manner rather than in fragmentation.

(7)

Serve as the principal liaison of the Army to comparable centers and commands of the other armed forces, including the Navy Information Operations Command, and to the information operations staff of the combatant commands.

(9)

Perform such other functions as the Secretary of the Army may specify.

(c) Annual report

The Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional defense committees, and make publicly available on an appropriate website of the Department, an annual report on the activities of the Center.

(c) Implementation plan

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for the establishment of the Center of Excellence established under section 7025 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (b), including—

(1)

the proposed organizational structure, location, and reporting chain of the Center;

(2)

the resources, personnel, and authorities required to establish and sustain the Center;

(3)

a description of how the Center will integrate with the Theater Information Advantage Detachments, Multi-Domain Task Forces, and the broader reorganization of Army information operations;

(4)

milestones for initial operating capability and full operating capability; and

(5)

metrics by which the Secretary will evaluate the effectiveness of the Center.