S.Amdt. 1731

SA 1731. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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 end of subtitle D of title IX, add the following:

SEC. __. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT ON
VULNERABILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
RESULTING FROM OFFSHORE TECHNICAL SUPPORT CALL
CENTERS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of
the United States shall submit to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a
report on vulnerabilities in connection with the provision of
services by offshore technical support call centers to the
Department of Defense.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description and assessment of the location of all
offshore technical support call centers.
(2) A description and assessment of the types of
information shared by the Department with foreign nationals
at offshore technical support call centers.
(3) An assessment of the extent to which access to such
information by foreign nationals creates vulnerabilities to
the information technology network of the Department.
(c) Offshore Technical Support Call Center Defined.--In
this section, the term ``offshore technical support call
center'' means a call center that--
(1) is physically located outside the United States;
(2) employs individuals who are foreign nationals; and
(3) may be contacted by personnel of the Department to
provide technical support relating to technology used by the
Department.
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