[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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