S.Amdt. 3254

SA 3254. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. TRACKING AND REPORTING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
FUNDS PROVIDED TO FOREIGN ENTITIES OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OR FOREIGN ENTITIES
OF CONCERN.

(a) Tracking.--The Secretary of Defense shall track amounts
provided by the Department of Defense to foreign entities
located in a foreign country of concern, including the
People's Republic of China, or foreign entities of concern in
the form of a contract, grant, other transaction agreement,
or any other type of funding.
(b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress
a report--
(1) detailing the actions taken by the Department detailing
the actions taken by the Department to carry out subsection
(a);
(2) identifying research funded by the Department in the
last three fiscal years that involves a foreign entity or a
foreign entity of concern, including--
(A) the funding agency;
(B) the type of funding;
(C) which entities were involved;
(D) the type of research project, publication, or other
funding associated with Department funding sources;
(E) the amount awarded or provided directly or indirectly,
including grants, contracts, loans, cooperative agreements,
other transaction agreements, subgrants, all levels of
subawards, and other forms of financial assistance; and
(F) the justification for the funding; and
(3) addressing--
(A) what restrictions, if any, are placed upon the
Department's basic research awards to performers with
research ties to defense entities of foreign countries of
concern, and
(B) what mechanisms, if any, exist to mitigate potential
counterintelligence concerns.
(c) Form.--The report submitted under subsection (b) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(d) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall make
available to the public on a website of the Department the
unclassified portion of the report submitted under subsection
(b).
(e) Definitions of Foreign Country of Concern, Foreign
Entity, and Foreign Entity of Concern.--The terms ``foreign
country of concern'', ``foreign entity'', and ``foreign
entity of concern'' have the meanings given such terms in
section 9901 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C.
4651).
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