S.Amdt. 1710

SA 1710. Mr. KING (for himself and Mr. Sasse) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY
SECURITY CENTERS.

Section 307(b)(3) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, is
amended--
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting
``, national laboratories'' after ``development centers'';
(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(3) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end
and inserting ``; and''; and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
``(E) establish not less than 1, but not more than 3,
cybersecurity focused critical technology security center
to--
``(i) to test the security of cyber-related hardware and
software;
``(ii) to test the security of connected programmable data
logic controllers, supervisory control and data acquisition
servers, and other cyber connected industrial equipment; and
``(iii) to test and fix vulnerabilities in open-source
software repositories.''.
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