[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3244]
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  SA 1731. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 D of title IX, add the following:

     SEC. __. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT ON 
                   VULNERABILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   RESULTING FROM OFFSHORE TECHNICAL SUPPORT CALL 
                   CENTERS.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of 
     the United States shall submit to the Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a 
     report on vulnerabilities in connection with the provision of 
     services by offshore technical support call centers to the 
     Department of Defense.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) A description and assessment of the location of all 
     offshore technical support call centers.
       (2) A description and assessment of the types of 
     information shared by the Department with foreign nationals 
     at offshore technical support call centers.
       (3) An assessment of the extent to which access to such 
     information by foreign nationals creates vulnerabilities to 
     the information technology network of the Department.
       (c) Offshore Technical Support Call Center Defined.--In 
     this section, the term ``offshore technical support call 
     center'' means a call center that--
       (1) is physically located outside the United States;
       (2) employs individuals who are foreign nationals; and
       (3) may be contacted by personnel of the Department to 
     provide technical support relating to technology used by the 
     Department.
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