[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3616]
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SA 630. Mr. CASSIDY 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 end of subtitle C of title XVI, add the following:
SEC. ___. REQUIRING DEFENSE CONTRACTORS WITH INFORMATION
SYSTEMS THAT HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED OR BREACHED
BY NATION STATE ADVERSARIES TO IMPROVE
CYBSECURITY MEASURES.
The Secretary of Defense may not enter into a contract with
a contractor or subcontractor at any tier who the Secretary
determines has an information system that has been
infiltrated or breached by a nation state adversary unless
the contractor or subcontractor adopts within one year of the
infiltration or breach cybersecurity measures related to the
infiltration or breach that are equivalent to those of the
Department of Defense.
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