S.Amdt. 356

SA 356. Ms. ROSEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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. ___. PILOT PROGRAM ON IMPLEMENTING TRANSPORT ACCESS
CONTROL CAPABILITY.

(a) Additional Funding.--The amount authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2020 by section 201 for
research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby
increased by $3,500,000, with the amount of the increase to
be available for the Cyber Operations Technology Development
(PE 0306250F).
(b) Availability.--The amount available under subsection
(a) shall be available for the United States Cyber Command to
carry out a pilot program to assess the feasibility and
advisability of implementing a Transport Access Control
capability that uses identity and noninteractive
authentication at the first packet of transmission control
protocol or Internet Protocol request to validate machine-to-
machine communications hosted by cloud providers.
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