What changed between these versions
A small clarification and a deletion. Section 3(c)(1)(B) was streamlined to focus on medical care via telemedicine or related crisis response care, removing specific examples of mental health and counseling services. Additionally, v3 removes the consideration for K-12 educational outreach via video communications from the plan's network capabilities.
Overview
A handful of targeted changes. · v3 clarifies and slightly narrows the scope of specific considerations for the plan, particularly regarding network capabilities for personnel well-being and educational outreach.
The primary change in v3 is the removal of the explicit consideration for K-12 educational outreach and remote classroom teaching when assessing network capabilities for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. Additionally, the description of network access for personnel well-being was streamlined, moving from specific examples of mental health and counseling to a broader "related crisis response care." The core requirements for the cybersecurity and telecommunications plan remain unchanged.
Deletions
The consideration for network capabilities enabling video communications to allow improved outreach to, and other educational services for, K-12 students, including occasional remote classroom teaching for instructors at sea to improve oceanographic access for students.
This removes a specific mandate for the plan to assess network needs for educational services targeting K-12 students, potentially reducing the scope of required network capabilities or shifting the priority away from such outreach.
Modifications
The explicit enumeration of mental health care, counseling, and crisis response interviews as specific purposes for network access is removed, consolidating these under "medical care via telemedicine or related crisis response care." This streamlines the language without necessarily eliminating the possibility of such services, but makes the explicit mandate less detailed.
Before
Network access for the health and well-being of deployed personnel, including specific mentions of telemedicine (mental health care), counseling, interviews with crisis response providers, and other remote individual care and services.
After
Network access to conduct medical care via telemedicine or related crisis response care.