[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3390-S3391]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 288. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 II, add the following:

     SEC. ___. EDGE COMPUTING PLAN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer of 
     the Department of Defense shall develop and submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a plan to implement, manage, 
     coordinate, and field evolving commercial edge computing 
     technologies--
       (1) to improve the performance of C3I, logistics, and 
     warfighting systems of the Department; and
       (2) to ensure the military departments and defense agencies 
     are postured to quickly take advantage of the innovation 
     occurring in the private sector in artificial intelligence 
     and machine learning.
       (b) Contents.--The plan submitted under subsection (a) 
     shall include plans to develop policies, procedures, budgets, 
     and accelerated acquisition and contracting mechanisms for 
     edge computing.

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       (c) Definition of Edge Computing.--In this section, the 
     term ``edge computing'' means a method of optimizing 
     applications or cloud computing systems by taking some 
     portion of an application, its data, or services away from 
     one or more central nodes (referred to as the ``core'') to 
     the other logical extreme (referred to as the ``edge'') of 
     the Internet which makes contact with the physical world or 
     end users.
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