S.Amdt. 1532

SA 1532. Mr. DONNELLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Beginning on page 86, strike line 4 and all that follows
through page 87, line 5, and insert the following:
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall direct the executive
agent for printed circuit board technology appointed under
section 256(a) of the Duncan Hunter National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417;
10 U.S.C. 2501 note) to coordinate execution of the study
required by subsection (a) using capabilities of the
Department in effect on the day before the date of the
enactment of this Act to conduct technical analysis on a
sample of failed electronic parts in field systems.
(2) Elements.--(A) The technical analysis required by
paragraph (1) shall include the following:
(i) Selection of a representative sample of electronic
component types, including digital, mixed-signal, and analog
integrated circuits.
(ii) An assessment of the presence of counterfeit parts,
including causes and attributes of failures of any identified
counterfeit part.
(iii) For components found to have counterfeit parts
present, an assessment of the impact of the counterfeit part
in the failure mechanism.
(iv) For cases with counterfeit parts contributing to the
failure, a determination of the failure attributes, factors,
and effects on subsystem and system level reliability,
readiness, and performance.
(B) For any parts assessed under subparagraph (A) that
demonstrate unusual or suspicious failure mechanisms, the
federation established under section 937(a)(1) of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014
(Public Law 113-66; 10 U.S.C. 2224 note) shall--
(i) conduct a technical assessment for indications of
malicious tampering; and
(ii) submit to the executive agent described in paragraph
(1) a report on the findings of the federation with respect
to the technical assessment conducted under clause (i).
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