S.Amdt. 768

SA 768. Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Ms. Warren) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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 VIII, insert the
following:

SEC. 8___. MODIFICATIONS TO RIGHTS IN TECHNICAL DATA.

Section 3771(b) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting ``for which the
United States shall have government purpose rights, unless
the Government and the contractor negotiate different license
rights'' after ``component)''; and
(2) in paragraph (4)(A)--
(A) in clause (ii), by striking ``; or'' and inserting a
semicolon;
(B) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and
(C) by inserting after clause (ii) the following new clause
(iii):
``(iii) is a release, disclosure, or use of detailed
manufacturing or process data--

``(I) that is necessary for operation, maintenance,
installation, or training and shall be used only for
operation, maintenance, installation, or training purposes
under conditions of a declared war, contingency operations;
or
``(II) for which the head of an agency determines that the
original supplier of such data will be unable to satisfy
program schedule or delivery requirements; or''.

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