To require a report on cyber applications of blockchain technology.

SA 1055. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed)
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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 C of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1630C. REPORT ON CYBER APPLICATIONS OF BLOCKCHAIN
TECHNOLOGY.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the heads of such other agencies and
departments as the Secretary considers appropriate, shall
submit to the appropriate

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committees of Congress a report on the potential offensive
and defensive cyber applications of blockchain technology and
other distributed database technologies and an assessment of
efforts by foreign powers, extremist organizations, and
criminal networks to utilize these technologies. Such report
shall also include an assessment of the use or planned use of
blockchain technologies by the United States Government or
critical infrastructure networks and the vulnerabilities of
such networks to cyber attacks.
(b) Form of Report.--The report required by (a) may be
submitted--
(1) in classified form; or
(2) in unclassified form with a classified annex.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee
on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
(2) Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland
Security of the House of Representatives.
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