S.Amdt. 4158

SA 4158. Mr. WYDEN 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 XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON COMBATING DIGITAL AUTHORITARIANISM.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report presenting and evaluating options through which the
Department of Defense can combat digital authoritarianism,
including through research and development.
(b) Consultation.--In preparing the report required by
subsection (a), the Secretary shall consult with the
following:
(1) The Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human
Rights, and Labor.
(2) The Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency
for Global Media.
(3) The Under Secretary of Industry and Security.
(4) The Deputy United States Trade Representative
responsible for digital trade.
(5) The Deputy Under Secretary of Labor for International
Labor Affairs.
(c) Form.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(d) Publication.--The Secretary shall publish the
unclassified portion of the report submitted under subsection
(a) on a publicly available website of the Department of
Defense.
(e) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
includes--
(1) the congressional defense committees;
(2) the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on
Finance, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate; and
(3) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the
Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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