[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3269]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1779. Ms. DUCKWORTH 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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1262. PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE CYBER COOPERATION WITH 
                   SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of State, may establish a pilot program--
       (1) to enhance the cyber security, resilience, and 
     readiness of United States partners in Southeast Asia; and
       (2) to increase regional cooperation between the United 
     States and Southeast Asian countries on cyber issues.
       (b) Locations.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation 
     with the Secretary of State, shall identify not fewer than 
     three pilot countries in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, 
     in which the pilot program under subsection (a) may be 
     carried out.
       (c) Elements.--The activities of the pilot program under 
     subsection (a) shall include the following:
       (1) Provision of training to cybersecurity and computer 
     science professionals in the pilot countries identified under 
     subsection (b).
       (2) An expansion of the capacity of organizations involved 
     in the training of such cybersecurity and computer science 
     professionals.
       (3) The facilitation of regular policy dialogues between 
     and among the United States Government and the governments of 
     such pilot countries with respect to the development of 
     infrastructure to protect against cyber attacks.
       (4) An evaluation of legal and other barriers to reforms 
     relevant to cybersecurity and technology in such pilot 
     countries.
       (5) A feasibility study on establishing a public-private 
     partnership to build cloud-computing capacity in such pilot 
     countries and in Southeast Asia more broadly.
       (6) The development of cooperative exercises, to be carried 
     out in future years, to enhance collaboration between the 
     United States Government and the governments of such pilot 
     countries.
       (d) Funding.--The Secretary of Defense may use amounts 
     provided through grants under section 211 of the Vietnam 
     Education Foundation Act of 2000 (title II of division B of 
     H.R. 5666, as enacted by section 1(a)(4) of Public Law 106-
     554 and contained in appendix D of that Act; 114 Stat. 2763A-
     254; 22 U.S.C. 2452 note), as added by section 7085 of the 
     Consolidated and Further Appropriations Act, 2015 (Public Law 
     113-235; 128 Stat. 2685), to carry out the pilot program 
     under subsection (a).
       (e) Reports.--
       (1) Design of pilot program.--Not later than June 1, 2021, 
     the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary 
     of State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report on the design of the pilot program under 
     subsection (a).
       (2) Progress report.--Not later than December 31, 2021, the 
     Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of 
     State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 
     a report on the pilot program under subsection (a) that 
     includes--
       (A) a description of the activities conducted and the 
     results of such activities; and
       (B) an assessment of legal and other barriers to reforms 
     relevant to cybersecurity and technology in the pilot 
     countries identified under subsection (b).
       (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 to carry 
     out this section.
       (g) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by 
     this Act for operation and maintenance, Navy, and available 
     for SAG 1CCS for military information support operations, is 
     hereby reduced by $5,000,000.
       (h) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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