[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7943-S7944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4449. Mr. TILLIS 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 XVI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. BRIEFING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTEROPERABILITY 
                   FOR DATA ANALYTICS.

       (a) Briefing Required.--Not later than 60 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Data Officer of 
     the Department of Defense shall brief the congressional

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     defense committees on the activities the Department is 
     undertaking to ensure that authoritative enterprise data is 
     available to and interoperable among multiple data management 
     and analytics platforms for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy 
     Secretary of Defense, Principal Staff Assistants, and 
     components of the Department in adherence with an open data 
     standard architecture.
       (b) Elements.--The briefing provided under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) An assessment of how data analytics platforms currently 
     in use adhere to an open data standard architecture in 
     accordance with the Deputy Secretary of Defense's memorandum 
     on Creating Data Advantage.
       (2) A description of the process and metrics used by the 
     Chief Data Officer to approve additional platforms for use.
       (3) A plan to federate data that can be accessed across the 
     enterprise, wherever it exists, by multiple data analytics 
     platforms.
       (4) An assessment of the cybersecurity benefits derived 
     through implementing a diversity of data platforms.
       (5) An assessment of the ability to better meet unique 
     mission requirements at the edge via operator access to 
     competitive, multi-tool analytics platforms.
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