S.Amdt. 856

SA 856. Mr. VANCE 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 end of subtitle B of title II, add the following:

SEC. __. CERTAIN DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH FUNDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) Disclosures Required.--Not later than 90 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall require the principal investigator of any covered
research program at an institution of higher education to
accurately and completely disclose to the Department of
Defense the following:
(1) At the time of application for funding from the
Department of Defense for a covered research program,
disclose, with respect to each researcher who is expected to
participate in the program--
(A) date and place of birth, country of citizenship, and
immigration status in the case of a foreign national;
(B) educational background from undergraduate education
onwards;
(C) professional and employment background, as applicable,
including any history of working for a foreign government or
on foreign government sponsored projects;
(D) all previous and concurrent research, academic and
corporate positions, ties, or relationships;
(E) past and current affiliation with foreign governments,
including foreign political parties or organizations, and
military ties, as applicable, in case of foreign national;
(F) past or current involvement in any foreign talent
programs;
(G) memberships in foreign and United States academic and
professional associations and organizations; and
(H) a list of all publications published anywhere in any
language, peer reviewed or non-peer reviewed, including all
mentions of foreign funding, research collaborations, and in
kind support that supported the research and publication.
(2) Disclose the information specified in paragraph (1)
with respect to any researcher who joins a covered research
program after funding is awarded by the Department of Defense
not later than 90 days after the researcher joins the
program.
(3) Beginning not later than one year after funding is
awarded by the Department of Defense for a covered research
program, and annually thereafter through the end of the award
period, disclose--
(A) any direct, indirect, formal, or informal collaboration
that the principal investigator, either independently or as
the lead of the covered research program, enters into with
any third-party persons or entities, including the identity
and nationality of the third party collaborator, the nature
of the collaboration (whether direct, indirect, formal or
informal) and the terms and conditions of such collaboration;
and
(B) any change of status with regard to a researcher who
was the subject of a disclosure under paragraphs (1) or (2),
including any departure of such researcher from the program,
the terms of such departure, change of immigration status,
and change in foreign ties and collaboration.
(b) Form; Public Availability of Information.--Each
disclosure under subsection (a) shall be submitted in
unclassified form and shall be made available on a publicly
accessible website of the Federal Government.
(c) Definitions.--In this section--
(1) the term ``covered research program'' means any
research program, research project, or other research
activity (including classified and unclassified research)
that is--
(A) conducted by an institution of higher education; and
(B) funded, in whole or in part, by the Department of
Defense;
(2) the term ``institution of higher education'' has the
meaning given such term in section 102 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002) and includes any
department, program, project, faculty, researcher, or other
individual, entity, or activity of such institution; and
(3) the term ``researcher'' means any person who has access
to research information under a covered research program,
including the principal investigator and any graduate
students, post-doctoral fellows, or visiting scholars
participating in such program.
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