consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, establish an activity to assess and strengthen the cybersecurity resiliency of the defense industrial base of the United States. (2) Designation The activity that may be established under paragraph (1) shall be known as the Cybersecurity for Defense Industrial Base Manufacturing Activity . (b) Activities If the Secretary of Defense exercises the authority under subsection (a), the Secretary shall utilize the activity to explore ways to increase the cybersecurity resilience of the defense industrial supply chain. Such exploration may include the following: (1) Developing cybersecurity test capabilities to support identifying and reducing security vulnerabilities (as defined in section 102 of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 ( 6 U.S.C. 1501 )) in defense industrial base manufacturing processes. (2) Developing in-person and online training to help small defense industrial base manufacturers improve their cybersecurity. (3) Ensuring that cybersecurity for defense industrial base manufacturing is included in Department of Defense research and development roadmaps and threat assessments. (4) Aggregating, developing, and disseminating capabilities to address cybersecurity threats that can be provided to and adopted by defense industrial base manufacturers of all sizes. II Mitigation of risks posed by providers of information technology with obligations to foreign governments 1637. Definitions In this part: (1) Appropriate committees of congress defined The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate