[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5921]
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SA 6397. Mr. BENNET (for himself, Mr. Sasse, and Mr. Warner)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499
submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be
proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2023 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. ___. OFFICE OF GLOBAL COMPETITION ANALYSIS.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has
the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5, United
States Code.
(2) Office.--The term ``Office'' means the Office of Global
Competition Analysis established under subsection (b).
(b) Establishment.--
(1) In general.--The President shall establish an office
for analysis of global competition.
(2) Purposes.--The purposes of the Office are as follows:
(A) To carry out a program of analysis relevant to United
States leadership in technology and innovation sectors
critical to national security and economic prosperity
relative to other countries, particularly those countries
that are strategic competitors of the United States.
(B) To support policy development and decisionmaking across
the Federal Government to ensure United States leadership in
technology and innovation sectors critical to national
security and economic prosperity relative to other countries,
particularly those countries that are strategic competitors
of the United States.
(3) Designation.--The office established under paragraph
(1) shall be known as the ``Office of Global Competition
Analysis''.
(c) Activities.--In accordance with the priorities
determined under subsection (d), the Office shall--
(1) subject to subsection (f), acquire, access, use, and
handle data or other information relating to the purposes of
the Office under subsection (b);
(2) conduct long- and short-term analyses regarding--
(A) United States policies that enable technological
competitiveness relative to those of other countries,
particularly with respect to countries that are strategic
competitors of the United States;
(B) United States science and technology ecosystem
elements, including technology innovation, development,
advanced manufacturing, supply chain resiliency, workforce,
and production, relative to those of other countries,
particularly with respect to countries that are strategic
competitors of the United States;
(C) United States competitiveness in technology and
innovation sectors critical to national security and economic
prosperity relative to other countries, including the
availability and scalability of United States technology in
such sectors abroad, particularly with respect to countries
that are strategic competitors of the United States;
(D) trends and trajectories, including rate of change in
technologies, related to technology and innovation sectors
critical to national security and economic prosperity;
(E) threats to United States' national security interests
as a result of any foreign country's dependence on
technologies of strategic competitors of the United States;
and
(F) threats to United States interests based on
dependencies on foreign technologies critical to national
security and economic prosperity;
(3) solicit input on technology and economic trends, data,
and metrics from relevant private sector stakeholders and
engage with academia to inform the analyses under paragraph
(2); and
(4) to the greatest extent practicable and as may be
appropriate, ensure that versions of the analyses under
paragraph (2) are unclassified.
(d) Determination of Priorities.--On a periodic basis, the
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, the Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs, the Secretary
of Commerce, the Director of National Intelligence, the
Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary
of State, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, in
coordination with such heads of Executive agencies as such
Directors, Assistants, and Secretaries jointly consider
appropriate, jointly determine the priorities of the Office
with respect to subsection (b)(2)(A), considering, as may be
appropriate, the strategies and reports under subtitle B of
title VI of the Research and Development, Competition, and
Innovation Act (Public Law 117-167).
(e) Administration.--To carry out the purposes set forth
under subsection (b)(2), the Office shall enter into an
agreement with a Federally funded research and development
center, a university affiliated research center, or a
consortium of federally funded research and development
centers and university-affiliated research centers.
(f) Acquisition, Access, Use, and Handling of Data or
Information.--In carrying out the activities under subsection
(c), the Office--
(1) shall acquire, access, use, and handle data or
information in a manner consistent with applicable provisions
of law and policy and subject to any restrictions required by
the source of the information;
(2) shall have access to all information, data, or reports
of any Executive agency that the Office determines necessary
to carry out this section upon written request, consistent
with due regard for the protection from unauthorized
disclosure of classified information relating to sensitive
intelligence sources and methods or other exceptionally
sensitive matters; and
(3) may obtain commercially available information that may
not be publicly available.
(g) Additional Support.--A head of an Executive agency may
provide to the Office such support, in the form of financial
assistance and personnel, as the head considers appropriate
to assist the Office in carrying out any activity under
subsection (c), consistent with the priorities determined
under subsection (d).
(h) Annual Report.--Not less frequently than once each
year, the Office shall submit to Congress a report on the
activities of the Office under this section, including a
description of the priorities under subsection (d) and any
support, disaggregated by Executive agency, provided to the
Office consistent with subsection (g) in order to advance
those priorities.
(i) Plans .--Before establishing the Office under
subsection (b)(1), the President shall submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report detailing plans
for--
(1) the administrative structure of the Office, including--
(A) a detailed spending plan that includes administrative
costs; and
(B) a disaggregation of costs associated with carrying out
subsection (e)(1);
(2) ensuring consistent and sufficient funding for the
Office; and
(3) coordination between the Office and relevant Executive
agencies.
(j) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized
to be appropriated to carry out this section $20,000,000 for
fiscal year 2023.
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