[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 11, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S6585]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6465. Mr. REED (for Mr. Rubio) submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed to amendment SA 5499 proposed by Mr. Reed (for himself and 
Mr. Inhofe) to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense 
and 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 end of subtitle A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1214. UNITED STATES - ISRAEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
                   CENTER.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``United 
     States - Israel Artificial Intelligence Center Act''.
       (b) Defined Term.--The term ``foreign country of concern'' 
     means the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's 
     Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the Islamic 
     Republic of Iran, and any other country that the Secretary of 
     State determines to be a country of concern.
       (c) Establishment of Center.--The Secretary of State, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the Director of 
     the National Science Foundation, and the heads of other 
     relevant Federal agencies, shall establish the United States 
     - Israel Artificial Intelligence Center (referred to in this 
     section as the ``Center'') in the United States.
       (d) Purpose.--The purpose of the Center shall be to 
     leverage the experience, knowledge, and expertise of 
     institutions of higher education and private sector entities 
     in the United States and the State of Israel (referred to in 
     this section as ``Israel'') to develop more robust research 
     and development cooperation in the areas of--
       (1) machine learning;
       (2) image classification;
       (3) object detection;
       (4) speech recognition;
       (5) natural language processing;
       (6) data labeling;
       (7) computer vision; and
       (8) model explainability and interpretability.
       (e) Artificial Intelligence Principles.--In carrying out 
     the purpose described in subsection (d), the Center shall 
     adhere to the principles for the use of artificial 
     intelligence in the Federal Government set forth in section 3 
     of Executive Order 13960 (85 Fed. Reg. 78939).
       (f) International Partnerships.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State and the heads of 
     other relevant Federal agencies, subject to the availability 
     of appropriations, may enter into agreements supporting and 
     enhancing dialogue and planning involving international 
     partnerships between the Department of State or such agencies 
     and the Government of Israel and its ministries, offices, and 
     institutions.
       (2) Federal share.--Not more than 50 percent of the costs 
     of implementing the agreements entered into pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) may be paid by the United States Government.
       (g) Limitations.--The Center is prohibited from receiving 
     any investment from or contracting with--
       (1) any individual or entity with ties to any entity 
     affiliated (officially or unofficially) with the Chinese 
     Communist Party, the People's Liberation Army, or the 
     government of a foreign country of concern;
       (2) any entity owned, controlled by, or affiliated with the 
     Chinese Communist Party or the People's Republic of China, or 
     in which the government of a foreign country of concern has 
     an ownership interest; or
       (3) any entity on the Entity List that is maintained by the 
     Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce 
     and set forth in Supplement No. 4 to part 744 of title 15, 
     Code of Federal Regulations.
       (h) Counterintelligence Screening.--Not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not later 
     than each December 31 thereafter, Director of National 
     Intelligence, in collaboration with the Director of the 
     National Counterintelligence and Security Center and the 
     Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall--
       (1) assess--
       (A) whether the Center or its participant institutions pose 
     a counterintelligence threat to the United States;
       (B) what specific measures the Center has implemented to 
     ensure that intellectual property developed with the 
     assistance of the Center has sufficient protections in place 
     to preclude misuse of United States intellectual property, 
     research and development, and innovation efforts; and
       (C) other threats from a foreign country of concern and 
     other entities; and
       (2) submit a report to Congress containing the results of 
     the assessment described in paragraph (1).
       (i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Center $10,000,000 for each of the 
     fiscal years 2023 through 2027 to carry out this section.
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