[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3510]
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SA 489. Mr. CRAPO (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Daines, and Mrs.
Feinstein) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:
SEC. 10__. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN
INTELLIGENCE CENTER.
(a) Establishment of Center.--Title IX of the Intelligence
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (50 U.S.C. 3382 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``SEC. 905. NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN INTELLIGENCE CENTER.
``(a) Establishment of Center.--There is within the
National Counterintelligence and Security Center in the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence a National
Supply Chain Intelligence Center.
``(b) Director of National Supply Chain Intelligence
Center.--There is a Director of the National Supply Chain
Intelligence Center, who shall be appointed by the President,
in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence
and other interagency partners as the President considers
appropriate.
``(c) Center Personnel.--
``(1) Senior management.--The Director of the National
Supply Chain Intelligence Center shall ensure that the senior
management of the Center includes one or more detailees from
one or more other Federal agencies.
``(2) Detail or assignment of personnel.--
``(A) In general.--With the approval of the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget, and in consultation with the
congressional committees of jurisdiction, the Director of the
National Supply Chain Intelligence Center may request of the
head of any department, agency, or element of the Federal
Government the detail or assignment of personnel from such
department, agency, or element to the National Supply Chain
Intelligence Center.
``(B) Duties.--Personnel detailed or assigned under
subparagraph (A) shall assist the National Supply Chain
Intelligence Center in carrying out the primary missions of
the Center.
``(C) Terms.--Personnel detailed or assigned under
subparagraph (A) shall be assigned or detailed to the
National Supply Chain Intelligence Center for a period of not
more than 2 years.
``(D) Regular employment.--Any Federal Government employee
detailed or assigned under subparagraph (A) shall retain the
rights, status, and privileges of his or her regular
employment without interruption.
``(d) Primary Missions.--The primary missions of the
National Supply Chain Intelligence Center shall be as
follows:
``(1) To aggregate all-source intelligence relating to
supply chains, including--
``(A) classified and unclassified information;
``(B) threat information; and
``(C) proprietary and sensitive information, including risk
and vulnerability information, voluntarily provided by
private entities.
``(2) To share strategic warnings relating to supply chains
or supply chain activities, as the Director of the National
Supply Chain Intelligence Center considers appropriate and
consistent with security standards for classified information
and sensitive proprietary information, among--
``(A) the elements of the intelligence community (as
defined in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50
U.S.C. 3003)), components of the Department of Justice and
the Department of Defense, the Federal Acquisition Security
Council, and other Federal agencies;
``(B) at-risk industry partners; and
``(C) governments of countries that are allies of the
United States.
``(3) To serve as the central and shared knowledge resource
for--
``(A) known and suspected threats to supply chain
activities or supply chain integrity from international
groups, companies, countries, or other entities; and
``(B) the goals, strategies, capabilities, and networks of
contacts and support of such groups, companies, countries,
and other entities.
``(4) To perform tasks assigned to the National Supply
Chain Intelligence Center by relevant Government supply chain
task forces, including the Federal Acquisition Security
Council, and other entities.
``(e) Report on Alignment With Partner Efforts.--Not later
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, the Director
of the National Supply Chain Intelligence Center, in
coordination with the Director of the Defense
Counterintelligence and Security Agency and other Government
partners, shall submit to Congress a report on the alignment
and deconfliction among Government partner activities on
supply chain intelligence matters.
``(f) Annual Reports Required.--The Director of the
National Supply Chain Intelligence Center shall annually
submit to Congress a report, with classified annexes as
appropriate, on the state of threats to the security of
supply chains and supply chain activities for United States
Government acquisitions and replenishment as of the date of
the submittal of the report.
``(g) Funding.--Amounts used to carry out this section
shall be derived from amounts appropriated or otherwise made
available for the National Intelligence Program (as defined
in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
3003)).''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section
1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting after the item
relating to section 904 the following new item:
``Sec. 905. National Supply Chain Intelligence Center.''.
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