S.Amdt. 3954

SA 3954. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Lujan) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. ____. STUDY ON NATIONAL LABORATORY CONSORTIUM FOR CYBER
RESILIENCE.

(a) Study Required.--The Secretary of Homeland Security
shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy and the
Secretary of Defense, conduct a study to analyze the
feasibility of authorizing a consortia within the National
Laboratory system to address information technology and
operational technology cybersecurity vulnerabilities in
critical infrastructure (as defined in section 1016(e) of the
Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C.
5195c(e)).
(b) Elements.--The study required under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) An analysis of any additional authorities needed to
establish a research and development program to leverage the
expertise at

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the Department of Energy National Laboratories to accelerate
development and delivery of advanced tools and techniques to
defend critical infrastructure against cyber intrusions and
enable resilient operations during a cyber attack.
(2) Evaluation of potential pilot programs in research,
innovation transfer, academic partnerships, and industry
partnerships for critical infrastructure protection research.
(3) Identification of and assessment of near-term actions,
and cost estimates, necessary for the proposed consortia to
be established and effective at a broad scale expeditiously.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on the findings of the Secretary with respect to the
study conducted under subsection (a).
(2) Form.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(A) Committee on Armed Services, the Committee Energy and
Natural Resources, and the Committee on Homeland Security and
Government Affairs of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on Homeland Security
of the House of Representatives.
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