[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3627-S3628]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2625. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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:

       At the end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1052. REPORT ON IMPACTS OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES USED BY 
                   THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FALLING INTO THE 
                   POSSESSION OF ADVERSARIES.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Research and Engineering shall, in coordination 
     with the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, submit 
     to the Committees on

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     Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
     a report setting forth an assessment of the potential impacts 
     of emerging technologies being used in the Department of 
     Defense falling into the possession of adversaries of the 
     United States.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) A description and assessment of current potential 
     threats that emerging technologies being used in the 
     Department could fall into the possession of adversaries of 
     the United States, and of the possession of such technologies 
     by such adversaries.
       (2) A description and assessment of the ethical, legal, and 
     societal implications of such technologies falling into the 
     possession of such adversaries.
       (3) A description of the actions being taken by the 
     Department to prevent such adversaries from coning into 
     possession of such technologies.
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