S.Amdt. 6397

1. Adds SEC. ___. OFFICE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION ANALYSIS at the appropriate place in title X

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. ___. OFFICE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION ANALYSIS.

   Inserted: (a) Definitions.--In this section:

   Inserted: (1) Executive agency.--The term "Executive agency" has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.

   Inserted: (2) Office.--The term "Office" means the Office of Global Competition Analysis established under subsection (b).

   Inserted: (b) Establishment.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--The President shall establish an office for analysis of global competition.

   Inserted: (2) Purposes.--The purposes of the Office are as follows:

   Inserted: (A) To carry out a program of analysis relevant to United States leadership in technology and innovation sectors critical to national security and economic prosperity relative to other countries, particularly those countries that are strategic competitors of the United States.

   Inserted: (B) To support policy development and decisionmaking across the Federal Government to ensure United States leadership in technology and innovation sectors critical to national security and economic prosperity relative to other countries, particularly those countries that are strategic competitors of the United States.

   Inserted: (3) Designation.--The office established under paragraph (1) shall be known as the "Office of Global Competition Analysis".

   Inserted: (c) Activities.--In accordance with the priorities determined under subsection (d), the Office shall--

   Inserted: (1) subject to subsection (f), acquire, access, use, and handle data or other information relating to the purposes of the Office under subsection (b);

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   Inserted: (2) conduct long- and short-term analyses regarding--

   Inserted: (A) United States policies that enable technological competitiveness relative to those of other countries, particularly with respect to countries that are strategic competitors of the United States;

   Inserted: (B) United States science and technology ecosystem elements, including technology innovation, development, advanced manufacturing, supply chain resiliency, workforce, and production, relative to those of other countries, particularly with respect to countries that are strategic competitors of the United States;

   Inserted: (C) United States competitiveness in technology and innovation sectors critical to national security and economic prosperity relative to other countries, including the availability and scalability of United States technology in such sectors abroad, particularly with respect to countries that are strategic competitors of the United States;

   Inserted: (D) trends and trajectories, including rate of change in technologies, related to technology and innovation sectors critical to national security and economic prosperity;

   Inserted: (E) threats to United States' national security interests as a result of any foreign country's dependence on technologies of strategic competitors of the United States; and

   Inserted: (F) threats to United States interests based on dependencies on foreign technologies critical to national security and economic prosperity;

   Inserted: (3) solicit input on technology and economic trends, data, and metrics from relevant private sector stakeholders and engage with academia to inform the analyses under paragraph (2); and

   Inserted: (4) to the greatest extent practicable and as may be appropriate, ensure that versions of the analyses under paragraph (2) are unclassified.

   Inserted: (d) Determination of Priorities.--On a periodic basis, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, in coordination with such heads of Executive agencies as such Directors, Assistants, and Secretaries jointly consider appropriate, jointly determine the priorities of the Office with respect to subsection (b)(2)(A), considering, as may be appropriate, the strategies and reports under subtitle B of title VI of the Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act (Public Law 117-167).

   Inserted: (e) Administration.--To carry out the purposes set forth under subsection (b)(2), the Office shall enter into an agreement with a Federally funded research and development center, a university affiliated research center, or a consortium of federally funded research and development centers and university-affiliated research centers.

   Inserted: (f) Acquisition, Access, Use, and Handling of Data or Information.--In carrying out the activities under subsection (c), the Office--

   Inserted: (1) shall acquire, access, use, and handle data or information in a manner consistent with applicable provisions of law and policy and subject to any restrictions required by the source of the information;

   Inserted: (2) shall have access to all information, data, or reports of any Executive agency that the Office determines necessary to carry out this section upon written request, consistent with due regard for the protection from unauthorized disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally sensitive matters; and

   Inserted: (3) may obtain commercially available information that may not be publicly available.

   Inserted: (g) Additional Support.--A head of an Executive agency may provide to the Office such support, in the form of financial assistance and personnel, as the head considers appropriate to assist the Office in carrying out any activity under subsection (c), consistent with the priorities determined under subsection (d).

   Inserted: (h) Annual Report.--Not less frequently than once each year, the Office shall submit to Congress a report on the activities of the Office under this section, including a description of the priorities under subsection (d) and any support, disaggregated by Executive agency, provided to the Office consistent with subsection (g) in order to advance those priorities.

   Inserted: (i) Plans .--Before establishing the Office under subsection (b)(1), the President shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report detailing plans for--

   Inserted: (1) the administrative structure of the Office, including--

   Inserted: (A) a detailed spending plan that includes administrative costs; and

   Inserted: (B) a disaggregation of costs associated with carrying out subsection (e)(1);

   Inserted: (2) ensuring consistent and sufficient funding for the Office; and

   Inserted: (3) coordination between the Office and relevant Executive agencies.

   Inserted: (j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2023.

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   At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

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