S.Amdt. 2065

SA 2065. Mr. GARDNER 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 in title XII, insert the
following:

SEC. 12__. ESTABLISHMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL
TRILATERAL ALLIANCE OF NATIONS.

(a) Authority.--The Secretary of State, the Secretary of
Commerce, and the Secretary of the Treasury may jointly
establish a foundation, to be known as the ``Technology and
Industrial Trilateral Alliance of Nations'' or ``TITAN''
(referred to in this section as the Foundation) to award
competitive grants to private entities in the United States,
Israel, and the Indo-Pacific region to develop, manufacture,
sell, and support innovative products based on industrial
research and development in the following sectors:
(1) Agriculture.
(2) Communications.
(3) Construction technologies.
(4) Electronics.
(5) Electro-optics.
(6) Life sciences.
(7) Software.
(8) Homeland security.
(9) Renewable and alternative energy.
(10) Any other technology sector the Secretary considers
appropriate.
(b) Competitive Grant Program.--The Foundation shall
administer a competitive grant program for private entities
based in the United States, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific
region that are committed to accountability, transparency,
and the rule of law.
(c) Operations of Foundation.--The Foundation shall operate
under the same model and bylaws as the Israel-United States
Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation.
(d) Prohibition.--The Foundation may not provide a grant to
a private entity--
(1) domiciled in the People's Republic of China that has
known ties to the Government of the People's Republic of
China, the military forces of the People's Republic of China,
or the security services of the People's Republic of China;
or
(2) identified on the entity list maintained by the Bureau
of Industry and Security and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to
part 744 fo the Export Administration Regulations.
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