S.Amdt. 552

SA 552. Mr. RUBIO 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 B of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. DEFENSE MICROELECTRONICS AGENCY.

(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Department
of Defense a Defense Microelectronics Agency--
(1) to provide executive leadership to formally meet the
microelectronics requirements of all elements of the
Department; and
(2) to provide an assured, trusted source for integrated
circuits, ranging from obsolete and legacy components to
state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art microelectronics
for the Department.
(b) Functions.--The functions of the Defense
Microelectronics Agency are as follows:
(1) Establishing a public private partnership to initiate a
Government owned, contractor operated (GOCO) facility for the
manufacture of microelectronics for the Department in order
to provide the supply

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chain security, dependability, and expediency required to
cost effectively address national defense needs of the United
States. Such partnership shall enable access to state-of-the-
art technology in an environment that can accommodate top-
secret activities.
(2) Creating an annual, moving estimate of 5- and 10-year
future microelectronics needs of the Department, including
processes and design methods.
(3) Collecting and organizing known and projected
technology requirements of the Department relating to
microelectronics.
(4) Enhancing, shaping, and directing Department
microelectronics science and technology budgets and programs
in research, development, test, and evaluation to assure the
requirements collected and organized under paragraph (3) are
met.
(5) Tracking and analyzing microelectronics industry
capabilities, including trusted technology and production
capabilities.
(6) Performing outreach and industry coordination on all
matters relating to the functions under this subsection via
external advisory groups and industry associations.
(7) Arranging trusted foundry capacity as needed at all
tier levels and defining their funding models.
(8) Issuing Departmentwide directions, policies, and
procurement regulations relating to microelectronics.
(9) Overseeing the acquisition of all microelectronics
within the Department of Defense including subsystems within
procurement programs.
(c) Requirements.--
(1) Establishing and publishing department policies.--(A)
The Defense Microelectronics Agency shall establish and
publish policies for the Department on the criticality of
access to advanced integrated circuit technologies and the
need for microelectronics science and technology and research
and development funding.
(B)(i) The Defense Microelectronics Agency shall define and
provide guidance on a subset of microelectronics components
that require special considerations for trustworthiness.
(ii) The guidance required by clause (i) shall include
direction as to when the Department must assure commercial-
off-the-shelf component trustworthiness.
(2) Review of funding levels.--The Defense Microelectronics
Agency shall review and determine if microelectronics science
and technology and research and development funding levels of
the Department are consistent with new priorities.
(3) Formal approach to interagency and interdepartmental
working groups.--(A) The Defense Microelectronics Agency
shall institutionalize a formal approach to interagency and
interdepartmental working groups, including Department of
Defense, Department of Energy, and the intelligence
community, in order to examine threats to and means of
verifying trustworthiness of microelectronic components.
(B) Such groups shall continually evaluate the state of the
art of techniques such as tamper-proof design, life testing,
reverse engineering and chip and package testing for their
practicality for Department of Defense use.
(C) Such working groups shall focus on techniques for
assuring trustworthiness of embedded processors and memories
in array and system-on-a-chip components.
(4) Components requiring highest degree of
trustworthiness.--(A) The Defense Microelectronics Agency
shall establish criteria and process guidelines for
Department of Defense programs and Department prime
contractors on how to identify or classify components
requiring the highest degree of trustworthiness.
(B) The Defense Microelectronics Agency shall develop
procedures and techniques to evaluate the need for
trustworthiness of each microelectronic component in
Department systems.
(d) Transfer of Functions.--
(1) Defense microelectronics activity.--All functions and
resources of the Defense Microelectronics Activity are hereby
functions and resources of the Defense Microelectronics
Agency.
(2) Research, develop, testing, and engineering.--All
research, development, testing, and engineering functions of
the Department relating to microelectronics or semiconductors
and all funding appropriated or otherwise made available to
the Department for such functions are hereby functions and
funding appropriated or otherwise made available for the
Defense Microelectronics Agency.
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