1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing the Electric Grid to Protect Military Readiness Act of 2017 . 2. Report on significant security risks of defense critical electric infrastructure (a) Report required Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Energy, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth the following: (1) Identification of significant security risks to defense critical electric infrastructure posed by significant malicious cyber-enabled activities. (2) An assessment of the potential effect of the security risks identified pursuant to paragraph (1) on the readiness of the Armed Forces. (3) An assessment of the strategic benefits derived from, and the challenges associated with, isolating military infrastructure from the national electric grid and the use of microgrids by the Armed Forces. (4) Recommendations on actions to be taken— (A) to eliminate or mitigate the security risks identified pursuant to paragraph (1); and (B) to address the effect of those security risks on the readiness of the Armed Forces identified pursuant to paragraph (2). (b) Form of report The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (c) Definitions In this section: (1) The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the congressional defense committees (as defined in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code); (B) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and (C) the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives. (2) The term defense critical electric infrastructure — (A) has the meaning given such term in section 215A(a) of the Federal Power Act ( 16 U.S.C. 824o–1(a) )