S.Amdt. 2493

SA 2493. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Coons) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe
(for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill
H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 E of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1052. BRIEFING ON USE AND EXPANSION OF HACKING FOR
DEFENSE IN SUPPORT OF INNOVATION AND
ENTREPRENEURIAL EFFORTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

Not later than February 28, 2019, the Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall provide the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of
Representatives a briefing on proposals for use or expansion
of the so-called ``Hacking for Defense'' program in order to
support the innovation and entrepreneurial efforts of the
Department of Defense, including the following:
(1) A description of the manner in which the Hacking for
Defense program is currently being employed within the
Department.
(2) A description and assessment of proposals for manners
in which the Hacking for Defense program could be leveraged
or expanded in order to do the following:
(A) Provide advanced warfighter solutions.
(B) Address readiness deficiencies.
(C) Reinvigorate, modernize, and enhance the innovation
education of the Department with institutions of higher
education and professional education programs in the United
States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
countries.
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