S.Amdt. 1779

SA 1779. Ms. DUCKWORTH 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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1262. PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CYBER COOPERATION WITH
SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, may establish a pilot program--
(1) to enhance the cyber security, resilience, and
readiness of United States partners in Southeast Asia; and
(2) to increase regional cooperation between the United
States and Southeast Asian countries on cyber issues.
(b) Locations.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation
with the Secretary of State, shall identify not fewer than
three pilot countries in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam,
in which the pilot program under subsection (a) may be
carried out.
(c) Elements.--The activities of the pilot program under
subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) Provision of training to cybersecurity and computer
science professionals in the pilot countries identified under
subsection (b).
(2) An expansion of the capacity of organizations involved
in the training of such cybersecurity and computer science
professionals.
(3) The facilitation of regular policy dialogues between
and among the United States Government and the governments of
such pilot countries with respect to the development of
infrastructure to protect against cyber attacks.
(4) An evaluation of legal and other barriers to reforms
relevant to cybersecurity and technology in such pilot
countries.
(5) A feasibility study on establishing a public-private
partnership to build cloud-computing capacity in such pilot
countries and in Southeast Asia more broadly.
(6) The development of cooperative exercises, to be carried
out in future years, to enhance collaboration between the
United States Government and the governments of such pilot
countries.
(d) Funding.--The Secretary of Defense may use amounts
provided through grants under section 211 of the Vietnam
Education Foundation Act of 2000 (title II of division B of
H.R. 5666, as enacted by section 1(a)(4) of Public Law 106-
554 and contained in appendix D of that Act; 114 Stat. 2763A-
254; 22 U.S.C. 2452 note), as added by section 7085 of the
Consolidated and Further Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law
113-235; 128 Stat. 2685), to carry out the pilot program
under subsection (a).
(e) Reports.--
(1) Design of pilot program.--Not later than June 1, 2021,
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary
of State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of
Congress a report on the design of the pilot program under
subsection (a).
(2) Progress report.--Not later than December 31, 2021, the
Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of
State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress
a report on the pilot program under subsection (a) that
includes--
(A) a description of the activities conducted and the
results of such activities; and
(B) an assessment of legal and other barriers to reforms
relevant to cybersecurity and technology in the pilot
countries identified under subsection (b).
(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 to carry
out this section.
(g) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by
this Act for operation and maintenance, Navy, and available
for SAG 1CCS for military information support operations, is
hereby reduced by $5,000,000.
(h) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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