[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 639. 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. ___. COMMERCIAL EDGE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND BEST 
                   PRACTICES FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WARFIGHTING 
                   SYSTEMS.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on commercial edge 
     computing technologies and best practices for Department of 
     Defense warfighting systems.
       (b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) Identification of initial warfighting system programs 
     of record that will benefit most from accelerated insertion 
     of commercial edge computing technologies and best practices, 
     resulting in significant near-term improvement in system 
     performance and mission capability.
       (2) The plan of the Department of Defense to provide 
     additional funding for the systems identified in paragraph 
     (1) to achieve fielding of accelerated commercial edge 
     computing technologies before or during fiscal year 2021.
       (3) The plan of the Department to identify, manage, and 
     provide additional funding for commercial edge computing 
     technologies more broadly over the next four fiscal years 
     where appropriate for--
       (A) command, control, communications, and intelligence 
     systems;
       (B) logistics systems; and
       (C) other mission-critical systems.
       (4) A detailed description of the policies, procedures, 
     budgets, and accelerated acquisition and contracting 
     mechanisms of the Department for near-term insertion of 
     commercial edge computing technologies and best practices 
     into military mission-critical systems.
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