[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5992]
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  SA 3254. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. TRACKING AND REPORTING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   FUNDS PROVIDED TO FOREIGN ENTITIES OF THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OR FOREIGN ENTITIES 
                   OF CONCERN.

       (a) Tracking.--The Secretary of Defense shall track amounts 
     provided by the Department of Defense to foreign entities 
     located in a foreign country of concern, including the 
     People's Republic of China, or foreign entities of concern in 
     the form of a contract, grant, other transaction agreement, 
     or any other type of funding.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress 
     a report--
       (1) detailing the actions taken by the Department detailing 
     the actions taken by the Department to carry out subsection 
     (a);
       (2) identifying research funded by the Department in the 
     last three fiscal years that involves a foreign entity or a 
     foreign entity of concern, including--
       (A) the funding agency;
       (B) the type of funding;
       (C) which entities were involved;
       (D) the type of research project, publication, or other 
     funding associated with Department funding sources;
       (E) the amount awarded or provided directly or indirectly, 
     including grants, contracts, loans, cooperative agreements, 
     other transaction agreements, subgrants, all levels of 
     subawards, and other forms of financial assistance; and
       (F) the justification for the funding; and
       (3) addressing--
       (A) what restrictions, if any, are placed upon the 
     Department's basic research awards to performers with 
     research ties to defense entities of foreign countries of 
     concern, and
       (B) what mechanisms, if any, exist to mitigate potential 
     counterintelligence concerns.
       (c) Form.--The report submitted under subsection (b) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Public Availability.--The Secretary shall make 
     available to the public on a website of the Department the 
     unclassified portion of the report submitted under subsection 
     (b).
       (e) Definitions of Foreign Country of Concern, Foreign 
     Entity, and Foreign Entity of Concern.--The terms ``foreign 
     country of concern'', ``foreign entity'', and ``foreign 
     entity of concern'' have the meanings given such terms in 
     section 9901 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 
     4651).
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