[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5701-S5702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1055. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) 
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 
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 XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1630C. REPORT ON CYBER APPLICATIONS OF BLOCKCHAIN 
                   TECHNOLOGY.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, 
     in consultation with the heads of such other agencies and 
     departments as the Secretary considers appropriate, shall 
     submit to the appropriate

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     committees of Congress a report on the potential offensive 
     and defensive cyber applications of blockchain technology and 
     other distributed database technologies and an assessment of 
     efforts by foreign powers, extremist organizations, and 
     criminal networks to utilize these technologies. Such report 
     shall also include an assessment of the use or planned use of 
     blockchain technologies by the United States Government or 
     critical infrastructure networks and the vulnerabilities of 
     such networks to cyber attacks.
       (b) Form of Report.--The report required by (a) may be 
     submitted--
       (1) in classified form; or
       (2) in unclassified form with a classified annex.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee 
     on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
       (2) Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select 
     Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland 
     Security of the House of Representatives.
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