S.Amdt. 4686

SA 4686. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. King) 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 SUPPLY CHAINS CRITICAL TO NATIONAL
SECURITY.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall, in
coordination with the Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency and the heads of such elements of the intelligence
community as the Director of National Intelligence considers
appropriate--
(1) complete a study--
(A) to identify--
(i) supply chains that are critical to the national
security, economic security, or public health or safety of
the United States; and
(ii) important vulnerabilities in such supply chains; and
(B) to develop recommendations for legislative or
administrative action to secure the supply chains identified
under subparagraph (A)(i); and
(2) submit to the congressional intelligence committees (as
that term is defined in section 3 of the National Security
Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003)), the Committee on Armed
Services of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services
of the House of Representatives the findings of the directors
with respect to the study conducted under paragraph (1).
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