[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7472-S7473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3954. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. Lujan) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. 
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 appropriate place in title X, insert 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

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     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 Homeland Security 
     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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