S.Amdt. 1951

SA 1951. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Baldwin, and
Mr. Wyden) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment

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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, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 884. TREATMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AT
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
NATIONAL LABORATORIES AS NATIONAL SECURITY
SYSTEMS.

(a) Treatment as National Security Systems.--Consistent
with the exceptions to certain requirements under subchapter
II of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, applicable
to national security systems, high-performance computing
(HPC) systems at Department of Defense and Department of
Energy laboratories shall, as national security systems, be
exempt from requirements under section 11319 of title 40,
United States Code.
(b) Information Sharing.--The head of each relevant agency
shall develop procedures to ensure that the Chief Information
Officer of the agency has access to all necessary and
appropriate information on HPC programs and investments to
fulfill the Chief Information Officer's duties.
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