[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2615. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Schumer) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 10__. HARDWARE SECURITY RESEARCH FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE 
                   COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

       (a) In General.--Title LIII of the National Artificial 
     Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9441 et seq.) 
     is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 5304. HARDWARE SECURITY RESEARCH FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE 
                   COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

       ``(a) In General.--The Secretary of Commerce shall, subject 
     to the availability of appropriations--
       ``(1)(A) designate certain properties or capabilities of 
     integrated circuits as being critical, or specialized, for 
     high-performance computing, high-performance networking, 
     artificial intelligence development, or artificial 
     intelligence deployment;
       ``(B) perform research to make designations under 
     subparagraph (A); and
       ``(C) regularly update those designations as commercially 
     available integrated circuits change over time;
       ``(2)(A) identify categories of products containing 
     integrated circuits that have properties or capabilities 
     designated under paragraph (1); and
       ``(B) regularly update the categories of products 
     identified under subparagraph (A) as available products 
     change over time;
       ``(3) in conjunction with relevant entities from 
     government, academia, and industry--
       ``(A) establish a research and development program for the 
     development of security and governance mechanisms for the 
     categories of products identified under paragraph (2); and
       ``(B) develop and refine benchmarks and procedures for 
     evaluating the robustness of the security mechanisms 
     developed under subparagraph (A) for the categories of 
     products identified under paragraph (2); and
       ``(4) promote and facilitate the development of standards 
     for software and hardware security mechanisms for the 
     categories of products identified under paragraph (2) that 
     focus on limiting the extent to which unauthorized entities 
     may operate the products, either in general or in specific 
     usage configurations.
       ``(b) Interagency Coordination.--The Secretary shall 
     coordinate with all relevant committees of the National 
     Science and Technology Council to oversee the efforts carried 
     out under subsection (a).
       ``(c) External Consultation.--The Secretary shall consult 
     with the industrial advisory committee established under 
     section 9906(b) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 
     4656(b)) in carrying out the efforts under subsection (a).''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 2 
     of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283) 
     is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
     5303 the following:

``Sec. 5304. Hardware security research for high-performance computing 
              and artificial intelligence.''.
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