recommended by the Program pursuant to such review, shall be made available to any agencies or organizations of the Department involved in the development, procurement, operation, or maintenance of the system or infrastructure concerned. (d) Reports The Director of the National Security Agency shall submit to the Secretary of Defense and the congressional defense committees on a quarterly basis a report on the activities of the Program during the preceding calendar quarter. Each report shall include the following: (1) A description of the activities of the Program during the calendar quarter covered by such report. (2) A description of particular challenges encountered in the course of the activities of the Program during such calendar quarter, and of actions taken to address such challenges. (3) A description of the current plans of the Program for additional activities. (e) Funding Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2018 for operation and maintenance, Defense-wide, by section 301 and available for the Information Systems Security Program as specified in the funding table in section 4301, up to $100,000,000 may be available for the Strategic Cybersecurity Program and its activities in fiscal year 2018. (f) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the activities conducted under the Program should address the most critical systems of the Department of Defense and should supplement, not supplant, the Cyber Protection Teams of the Department of Defense. 1626. Evaluation of agile acquisition of cyber tools and applications (a) Evaluation required The Commander of the United States Cyber Command shall conduct an evaluation of alternative methods for developing, acquiring, and maintaining software-based cyber tools and applications for the United States Cyber Command, the Army Cyber Command, the Fleet Cyber Command, the Air Forces Cyber Command, and the Marine Corps Cyberspace Command. (b) Goal The goal of the evaluation required by subsection (a) is to identify a set of practices