Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2025”.
Strategic Subsea Cables Act of 2025
A BILL
To enhance United States Government strategic coordination of the security, installation, maintenance, and repair of international subsea fiber-optic cables.
Sec. 2 Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 3 Definitions
In this Act:
Agency— The term agency has the meaning given the term in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code.
Appropriate congressional committees— The term appropriate congressional committees means—
the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
Appropriate Federal agencies— The term appropriate Federal agencies means the following:
The Department of Commerce.
The Department of Defense.
The Department of Homeland Security.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The Department of State.
The Federal Communications Commission.
The Department of the Treasury.
The Department of the Judiciary.
Any additional Federal agencies, as determined by the President.
Interagency committee— The term interagency committee means the entity established under section 301(b) of this Act.
Non-Federal entity— The term non-Federal entity means any nongovernmental entity that is an individual, organization, or business involved in the operation, maintenance, repair, or construction of subsea fiber-optic cables, including subsea cable owners.
Subsea fiber-optic cable threat— The term subsea fiber-optic cable threat means an action or likely future action, in particular, actions taken with malicious intent, on or through a subsea fiber-optic cable network that may result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the privacy, efficacy, security, or integrity of a subsea fiber-optic cable network.