S.Amdt. 1892

SA 1892. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Brown) 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 end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 240. ELEMENT IN ANNUAL REPORTS ON CYBER SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITIES ON WORK WITH ACADEMIC
CONSORTIA TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY TO SECURE
EMBEDDED HARDWARE IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
CAPABILITIES.

Section 257(b)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116-92; 133 Stat. 1291) is
amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(J) Efforts to work with academic consortia to secure
embedded hardware, in coordination with the Department of
Defense labs, in Department capabilities and research on
ensuring cybersecurity protection for computer hardware that
is affordable, assured, and reliable.''.
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