S.Amdt. 4449

SA 4449. Mr. TILLIS 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. __. BRIEFING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTEROPERABILITY
FOR DATA ANALYTICS.

(a) Briefing Required.--Not later than 60 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Data Officer of
the Department of Defense shall brief the congressional

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defense committees on the activities the Department is
undertaking to ensure that authoritative enterprise data is
available to and interoperable among multiple data management
and analytics platforms for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy
Secretary of Defense, Principal Staff Assistants, and
components of the Department in adherence with an open data
standard architecture.
(b) Elements.--The briefing provided under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of how data analytics platforms currently
in use adhere to an open data standard architecture in
accordance with the Deputy Secretary of Defense's memorandum
on Creating Data Advantage.
(2) A description of the process and metrics used by the
Chief Data Officer to approve additional platforms for use.
(3) A plan to federate data that can be accessed across the
enterprise, wherever it exists, by multiple data analytics
platforms.
(4) An assessment of the cybersecurity benefits derived
through implementing a diversity of data platforms.
(5) An assessment of the ability to better meet unique
mission requirements at the edge via operator access to
competitive, multi-tool analytics platforms.
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