[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1708. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Lujan) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

  At the end of title V of division B, add the following:

     SEC. ____. STUDY ON NATIONAL LABORATORY CONSORTIUM FOR CYBER 
                   RESILIENCE.

       (a) Study Required.--The Secretary of Homeland Security 
     shall, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy and the 
     Secretary of Defense, conduct a study to analyze the 
     feasibility of authorizing a consortia within the National 
     Laboratory system to address information technology and 
     operational technology cybersecurity vulnerabilities in 
     critical infrastructure (as defined in section 1016(e) of the 
     Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 
     5195c(e)).
       (b) Elements.--The study required under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) An analysis of any additional authorities needed to 
     establish a research and development program to leverage the 
     expertise at the Department of Energy National Laboratories 
     to accelerate development and delivery of advanced tools and 
     techniques to defend critical infrastructure against cyber 
     intrusions and enable resilient operations during a cyber 
     attack.
       (2) Evaluation of potential pilot programs in research, 
     innovation transfer, academic partnerships, and industry 
     partnerships for critical infrastructure protection research.
       (3) Identification of and assessment of near-term actions, 
     and cost estimates, necessary for the proposed consortia to 
     be established and effective at a broad scale expeditiously.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on 
     the findings of the Secretary with respect to the study 
     conducted under subsection (a).
       (2) Form.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (3) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) Committee on Armed Services, the Committee Energy and 
     Natural Resources, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
     Government Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on Homeland Security 
     of the House of Representatives.
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