S.Amdt. 639

SA 639. Ms. BALDWIN 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. ___. COMMERCIAL EDGE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND BEST
PRACTICES FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WARFIGHTING
SYSTEMS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 120 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on commercial edge
computing technologies and best practices for Department of
Defense warfighting systems.
(b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) Identification of initial warfighting system programs
of record that will benefit most from accelerated insertion
of commercial edge computing technologies and best practices,
resulting in significant near-term improvement in system
performance and mission capability.
(2) The plan of the Department of Defense to provide
additional funding for the systems identified in paragraph
(1) to achieve fielding of accelerated commercial edge
computing technologies before or during fiscal year 2021.
(3) The plan of the Department to identify, manage, and
provide additional funding for commercial edge computing
technologies more broadly over the next four fiscal years
where appropriate for--
(A) command, control, communications, and intelligence
systems;
(B) logistics systems; and
(C) other mission-critical systems.
(4) A detailed description of the policies, procedures,
budgets, and accelerated acquisition and contracting
mechanisms of the Department for near-term insertion of
commercial edge computing technologies and best practices
into military mission-critical systems.
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