S.Amdt. 2905

SA 2905. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 228. HARDWARE-ENABLED GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS FOR EXPORT
CONTROL ENFORCEMENT.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of the Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering, in coordination with the Under
Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, shall
initiate the research and development of hardware-enabled
governance mechanisms for advanced chips to ensure that such
chips are not exported in violation of export controls
imposed by the United States. Such mechanisms may include--
(1) tamper-resistant chip location verification;
(2) high-bandwidth communication bottlenecking;
(3) on-chip metering and licensing; and
(4) tamper-resistant or tamper-evident encasing.
(b) Briefing Required.--Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of
Defense for Research and Engineering shall provide a briefing
to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the
House of Representatives to make recommendations for future
steps to implement hardware-enabled governance mechanisms
described in subsection (a).
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