[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3964-S3965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1951. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Baldwin, and 
Mr. Wyden) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment

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SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 D of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 884. TREATMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS AT 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
                   NATIONAL LABORATORIES AS NATIONAL SECURITY 
                   SYSTEMS.

       (a) Treatment as National Security Systems.--Consistent 
     with the exceptions to certain requirements under subchapter 
     II of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, applicable 
     to national security systems, high-performance computing 
     (HPC) systems at Department of Defense and Department of 
     Energy laboratories shall, as national security systems, be 
     exempt from requirements under section 11319 of title 40, 
     United States Code.
       (b) Information Sharing.--The head of each relevant agency 
     shall develop procedures to ensure that the Chief Information 
     Officer of the agency has access to all necessary and 
     appropriate information on HPC programs and investments to 
     fulfill the Chief Information Officer's duties.
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