National Defense Data Resilience Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8710 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8710 To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to implement resilient capabilities to recover critical Department of Defense data in the event such data is lost, degraded, or destroyed, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2026 Mr. Subramanyam (for himself and Mr. McCormick) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to require the Secretary of Defense to implement resilient capabilities to recover critical Department of Defense data in the event such data is lost, degraded, or destroyed, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``National Defense Data Resilience Act''. SEC. 2. DATA RECOVERY REQUIREMENTS AND STRATEGY. (a) Data Recovery Requirements.--Chapter 19 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 391b the following new section: ``Sec. 391c. Data recovery requirements ``(a) Mandatory Recovery Time Objectives.-- ``(1) The Secretary of Defense shall, with respect to each element of the Department of Defense, carry out the following: ``(A) Designate data as one of the following types, as applicable: ``(i) Critical data. ``(ii) Important data. ``(iii) Necessary data. ``(B) Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this section, establish mandatory recovery time objectives for data so designated as critical data. ``(C) Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this section, establish mandatory recovery time objectives f