[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3621-S3622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2606. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

       After section 1725, insert the following:

     SEC. 1726. PROTECTION OF EMERGING AND FOUNDATIONAL 
                   TECHNOLOGIES.

       (a) List Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     establish and maintain a list of emerging and foundational 
     technologies that are necessary for maintaining the national 
     security technological advantage of the United States over 
     countries of special concern, as determined by the Secretary.
       (b) Technology Protection.--The Secretary shall use the 
     list required by subsection (a) to inform activities carried 
     out by the Secretary relating to technology protection, 
     including under interagency processes carried out under 
     section 1725 or any other provision of law.

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       (c) Country of Special Concern.--In this section, the term 
     ``country of special concern'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 721(a) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, 
     as amended by section 1703.
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