S.Amdt. 2625

SA 2625. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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. REPORT ON IMPACTS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES USED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FALLING INTO THE
POSSESSION OF ADVERSARIES.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of
Defense for Research and Engineering shall, in coordination
with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, submit
to the Committees on

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Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives
a report setting forth an assessment of the potential impacts
of emerging technologies being used in the Department of
Defense falling into the possession of adversaries of the
United States.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description and assessment of current potential
threats that emerging technologies being used in the
Department could fall into the possession of adversaries of
the United States, and of the possession of such technologies
by such adversaries.
(2) A description and assessment of the ethical, legal, and
societal implications of such technologies falling into the
possession of such adversaries.
(3) A description of the actions being taken by the
Department to prevent such adversaries from coning into
possession of such technologies.
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