[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4515]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 884. Mr. RUBIO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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 B of title II, add the following new 
     section:

     SEC. 2__. MICROELECTRONICS CYBERSECURITY CENTER.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
     microelectronics cybersecurity center (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Center'').
       (b) Responsibilities.--The Center shall be responsible for 
     providing the defense industrial base with access to 
     manufacturing resources to support anti-tamper manufacturing, 
     system integration, advanced packaging, and technical 
     training capabilities for the development, prototyping, and 
     low-volume production of secured integrated microelectronics 
     in support of Department of Defense system commands and 
     laboratories to improve the security of Federal Government 
     systems and critical infrastructure.
       (c) Public-private Partnership.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall seek to 
     enter into an agreement with a qualified public-private 
     partnership under which the partnership will carry out the 
     responsibilities of the Center under this section.
       (2) Qualified public-private partnership defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``qualified public-private partnership'' 
     means a partnership between the Department of Defense and one 
     or more private sector entities that is in effect as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.
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