[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4368 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4368

 To establish the Office of Global Competition Analysis, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 9, 2022

  Mr. Bennet (for himself, Mr. Sasse, and Mr. Warner) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish the Office of Global Competition Analysis, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``American Technology Leadership Act 
of 2022''.

SEC. 2. OFFICE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION ANALYSIS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Office.--The term ``Office'' means the Office of Global 
        Competition Analysis established under subsection (b).
    (b) Establishment.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall establish an office on 
        analysis of global competition.
            (2) Purposes.--The purposes of the Office are as follows:
                    (A) To carry out a program of analysis on United 
                States leadership in technology and innovation sectors 
                critical to national security and economic prosperity 
                relative to other countries, particularly those 
                countries that are strategic competitors of the United 
                States.
                    (B) To support policy development and 
                decisionmaking to ensure United States leadership in 
                technology and innovation sectors critical to national 
                security and economic prosperity.
            (3) Designation.--The Office shall be known as the ``Office 
        of Global Competition Analysis''.
    (c) Activities.--In accordance with the priorities determined under 
subsection (d), the Office shall--
            (1) acquire and prepare data relating to the purposes of 
        the Office under subsection (b), including data relating to 
        critical technologies, innovation, and production capacity in 
        the United States and other countries, consistent with 
        applicable provisions of law;
            (2) conduct long- and short-term analysis regarding--
                    (A) United States policies that enable 
                technological competitiveness relative to those of 
                other countries, particularly with respect to countries 
                that are strategic competitors of the United States;
                    (B) United States science and technology ecosystem 
                elements relative to those of other countries, 
                particularly with respect to countries that are 
                strategic competitors of the United States;
                    (C) United States competitiveness in technology and 
                innovation sectors critical to national security and 
                economic prosperity relative to other countries, 
                including the availability of United States technology 
                in such sectors abroad, particularly with respect to 
                countries that are strategic competitors of the United 
                States;
                    (D) trends and trajectories, including rate of 
                change in technologies, related to technology and 
                innovation sectors critical to national security and 
                economic prosperity;
                    (E) threats to United States national security 
                interests as a result of any foreign country's 
                dependence on technologies of strategic competitors of 
                the United States; and
                    (F) threats to United States interests based on 
                dependencies on foreign technologies critical to 
                national security and economic prosperity; and
            (3) engage with private sector entities on matters relating 
        to analysis under paragraph (2).
    (d) Determination of Priorities.--On a periodic basis, the Director 
of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the National Economic 
Council, and the National Security Council, in coordination with such 
heads of such Executive agencies as the Director and the Councils 
jointly consider appropriate, shall jointly determine the priorities of 
the Office with respect to subsection (b)(2)(A).
    (e) Administration.--To carry out the purposes set forth under 
subsection (b)(2), the Office shall enter into an agreement with a 
public-private or a federally funded research and development center, a 
university affiliated research center, or consortium of federally 
funded research and development centers, and university affiliated 
research centers.
    (f) Access to, Use, and Handling of Information.--
            (1) Federal information.--In carrying out the activities 
        under subsection (c), the Office shall have access to all 
        information, data, or reports of any Executive agency that the 
        Office determines necessary to carry out this section--
                    (A) upon written request;
                    (B) subject to limitations under applicable 
                provisions of law; and
                    (C) consistent with the protection of sources and 
                methods, law enforcement strictures, protection of 
                proprietary information of businesses, and protection 
                of personally identifiable information.
            (2) Commercial information.--The Office may obtain 
        commercially available information that may not be publicly 
        available.
            (3) Use of information.--The Office may use information 
        obtained under this subsection for purposes set forth under 
        subsection (b)(2).
            (4) Handling of information.--The Office shall handle 
        information obtained under this subsection subject to all 
        restrictions required by the source of the information.
    (g) Additional Support.--A head of an Executive agency may provide 
to the Office such support, in the form of financial assistance and 
personnel, as the head considers appropriate to assist the Office in 
carrying out any activity under subsection (c), consistent with the 
priorities determined under subsection (d).
    (h) Annual Report.--Not less frequently than once each year, the 
Office shall submit to Congress a report on the activities of the 
Office under this section.
    (i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for fiscal year 
2023.
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