a pilot program that uses the results of research exercises of local government, industry, and military responses to combined natural disasters and cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in order to identify and develop means of improving such responses to such combined disasters and attacks. (2) Discharge The Assistant Secretary shall carry out the pilot program through the United States Northern Command and the United States Cyber Command. (3) Research exercises The pilot program shall be based on lessons learned from the so-called Jack Voltaic research exercises conducted by the Army Cyber Institute, industry partners of the Institute, and New York, New York, and Houston, Texas. (b) Purpose The purpose of the pilot program shall be to accomplish the following: (1) The development and demonstration of risk analysis methodologies, and the application of commercial simulation and modeling capabilities, based on artificial intelligence and hyperscale cloud computing technologies, for use by the Federal Governments, States, and localities, as applicable— (A) to assess defense critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and interdependencies to improve military resiliency