S.Amdt. 884

SA 884. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 new
section:

SEC. 2__. MICROELECTRONICS CYBERSECURITY CENTER.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a
microelectronics cybersecurity center (referred to in this
section as the ``Center'').
(b) Responsibilities.--The Center shall be responsible for
providing the defense industrial base with access to
manufacturing resources to support anti-tamper manufacturing,
system integration, advanced packaging, and technical
training capabilities for the development, prototyping, and
low-volume production of secured integrated microelectronics
in support of Department of Defense system commands and
laboratories to improve the security of Federal Government
systems and critical infrastructure.
(c) Public-private Partnership.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall seek to
enter into an agreement with a qualified public-private
partnership under which the partnership will carry out the
responsibilities of the Center under this section.
(2) Qualified public-private partnership defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``qualified public-private partnership''
means a partnership between the Department of Defense and one
or more private sector entities that is in effect as of the
date of the enactment of this Act.
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