S.Amdt. 2615

SA 2615. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Schumer) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 10__. HARDWARE SECURITY RESEARCH FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(a) In General.--Title LIII of the National Artificial
Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9441 et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5304. HARDWARE SECURITY RESEARCH FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce shall, subject
to the availability of appropriations--
``(1)(A) designate certain properties or capabilities of
integrated circuits as being critical, or specialized, for
high-performance computing, high-performance networking,
artificial intelligence development, or artificial
intelligence deployment;
``(B) perform research to make designations under
subparagraph (A); and
``(C) regularly update those designations as commercially
available integrated circuits change over time;
``(2)(A) identify categories of products containing
integrated circuits that have properties or capabilities
designated under paragraph (1); and
``(B) regularly update the categories of products
identified under subparagraph (A) as available products
change over time;
``(3) in conjunction with relevant entities from
government, academia, and industry--
``(A) establish a research and development program for the
development of security and governance mechanisms for the
categories of products identified under paragraph (2); and
``(B) develop and refine benchmarks and procedures for
evaluating the robustness of the security mechanisms
developed under subparagraph (A) for the categories of
products identified under paragraph (2); and
``(4) promote and facilitate the development of standards
for software and hardware security mechanisms for the
categories of products identified under paragraph (2) that
focus on limiting the extent to which unauthorized entities
may operate the products, either in general or in specific
usage configurations.
``(b) Interagency Coordination.--The Secretary shall
coordinate with all relevant committees of the National
Science and Technology Council to oversee the efforts carried
out under subsection (a).
``(c) External Consultation.--The Secretary shall consult
with the industrial advisory committee established under
section 9906(b) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C.
4656(b)) in carrying out the efforts under subsection (a).''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 2
of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283)
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section
5303 the following:

``Sec. 5304. Hardware security research for high-performance computing
and artificial intelligence.''.
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