S.Amdt. 395

SA 395. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 VIII, add the following:

SEC. 835. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL
BASE QUADRILATERAL COUNCIL.

Section 2502 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(e) National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral
Council.--(1) The chairman of the National Defense Technology
and Industrial Base Council shall work with the equivalent
designees in the countries that comprise the national
technology industrial base to form the National Technology
Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council.
``(2) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral
Council shall meet biannually to harmonize respective
policies and regulations, and to propose new legislation that
increases the seamless integration between the persons and
organizations comprising the national technology and
industrial base.
``(3) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral
Council shall--
``(A) address and review issues related to indus- trial
security, supply-chain security, cybersecurity, regulating
foreign direct investment and foreign ownership, control and
influence mitigation, market research, technology assessment,
and research cooperation within public and private research
and development organizations and universities, technology
and export control measures, acquisition processes and
oversight, and management best practices; and
``(B) establish a mechanism for National Technology
Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council members to raise
disputes that arise within the national technology industrial
base at a government-to-government level.''.
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