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(2) by inserting after paragraph (22) the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
‘‘(23) Space. 
‘‘(24) Infrastructure resilience. 
‘‘(25) Photonics. 
‘‘(26) Autonomy.’’. 
SEC. 216. ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ACTIVITIES. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The Under Secretary of Defense 
for Acquisition and Sustainment and the Under Secretary 
of Defense for Research and Engineering shall jointly, in 
coordination with Secretaries of the military departments, 
establish not less than three activities to demonstrate ad-
vanced manufacturing techniques and capabilities at depot- 
level activities or military arsenal facilities of the military 
departments. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The activities established pursuant to 
subsection (a) shall— 
(1) support efforts to implement advanced manu-
facturing techniques and capabilities; 
(2) identify improvements to sustainment meth-
ods for component parts and other logistics needs; 
(3) identify and implement appropriate infor-
mation security protections to ensure security of ad-
vanced manufacturing;
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(4) aid in the procurement of advanced manu-
facturing equipment and support services; and 
(5) enhance partnerships between the defense in-
dustrial base and Department of Defense laboratories, 
academic institutions, and industry. 
(c) COOPERATIVE
AGREEMENTS
AND
PARTNER-
SHIPS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Under Secretaries may 
enter into a cooperative agreement and use public- 
private and public-public partnerships to facilitate 
development of advanced manufacturing techniques in 
support of the defense industrial base. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—A cooperative agreement 
entered into under paragraph (1) and a partnership 
used under such paragraph shall facilitate— 
(A) development and implementation of ad-
vanced manufacturing techniques and capabili-
ties; 
(B) appropriate sharing of information in 
the adaptation of advanced manufacturing, in-
cluding technical data rights; and 
(C) implementation of appropriate informa-
tion security protections into advanced manufac-
turing tools and techniques.
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(d) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out this section, the 
Under Secretaries may use the following authorities: 
(1) Section 2196 of title 10, United States Code, 
relating to the Manufacturing Engineering Education 
Program. 
(2) Section 2368 of such title, relating to centers 
for science, technology, and engineering partnership. 
(3) Section 2374a of such title, relating to prizes 
for advanced technology achievements. 
(4) Section 2474 of such title, relating to centers 
of industrial and technical excellence. 
(5) Section 2521 of such title, relating to the 
Manufacturing Technology Program. 
(6) Section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Tech-
nology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a) and 
section 6305 of title 31, United States Code, relating 
to cooperative research and development agreements. 
(7) Such other authorities as the Under Secre-
taries considers appropriate. 
SEC. 217. NATIONAL SECURITY INNOVATION ACTIVITIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Under Secretary of De-
fense for Research and Engineering shall establish activities 
to develop interaction between the Department of Defense 
and the commercial technology industry and academia with
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regard to emerging hardware products and technologies 
with national security applications. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The activities required by subsection 
(a) shall include the following: 
(1) Informing and encouraging private invest-
ment in specific hardware technologies of interest to 
future defense technology needs with unique national 
security applications. 
(2) Funding research and technology develop-
ment in critical hardware-based defense sectors, spe-
cifically microelectromechanical systems, processing 
components, micromachinery, and materials science 
that private industry has not supported sufficiently to 
meet rapidly emerging national security needs. 
(3) Developing and executing policies and ac-
tions to deter strategic acquisition of industrial and 
technical capabilities in the private sector by foreign 
entities that could potentially exclude companies from 
participating in the Department of Defense tech-
nology and industrial base. 
(4) Identifying promising emerging technology 
in industry and academia for the Department of De-
fense for potential support or research and develop-
ment cooperation. 
(c) TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), the 
Under Secretary may transfer such personnel, re-
sources, and authorities as the Under Secretary con-
siders appropriate to carry out the activities estab-
lished under subsection (a) from other elements of the 
Department. 
(2) CERTIFICATION.—The Under Secretary may 
only make a transfer of personnel, resources, or au-
thorities under paragraph (1) upon certification by 
the Under Secretary that the activities established 
under paragraph (a) can attract sufficient private 
sector investment, has personnel with sufficient tech-
nical and management expertise, and has identified 
relevant technologies and systems for potential invest-
ment in order to carry out the activities established 
under subsection (a), independent of further govern-
ment funding beyond this authorization. 
(d) ESTABLISHMENT
OF NONPROFIT ENTITY.—The 
Under Secretary may establish or fund a nonprofit entity 
to carry out the program activities under subsection (a). 
(e) PLAN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Sec-
retary shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a detailed plan to carry out this section.
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(2) ELEMENTS.—The plan required by para-
graph (1) shall include the following: 
(A) A description of the additional authori-
ties needed to carry out the activities set forth in 
subsection (b). 
(B) Plans for transfers under subsection (c), 
including plans for private fund-matching and 
investment mechanisms, oversight, treatment of 
rights relating to technical data developed, and 
relevant dates and goals of such transfers. 
(C) Plans for attracting the participation of 
the commercial technology industry and aca-
demia and how those plans fit into the current 
Department of Defense research and engineering 
enterprise. 
(f) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out this section, the 
Under Secretary may use the following authorities: 
(1) Section 1711 of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115– 
91), relating to a pilot program on strengthening 
manufacturing in the defense industrial base. 
(2) Section 1599g of title 10 of the United States 
Code, relating to public-private talent exchanges.
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(3) Section 2368 of such title, relating to Centers 
for Science, Technology, and Engineering Partner-
ships. 
(4) Section 2374a of such title, relating to prizes 
for advanced technology achievements. 
(5) Section 2474 of such title, relating to Centers 
of Industrial and Technical Excellence. 
(6) Section 2521 of such title, relating to the 
Manufacturing Technology Program. 
(7) Subchapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, 
United States Code, relating to assignments to and 
from States. 
(8) Chapter 47 of such title, relating to personnel 
research programs and demonstration projects. 
(9) Section 12 of the Stevenson-Wydler Tech-
nology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3710a) and 
section 6305 of title 31, United States Code, relating 
to cooperative research and development agreements. 
(10) Such other authorities as the Under Sec-
retary considers appropriate. 
(g) FUNDING.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense 
by section 201 and subject to the availability of appropria-
tions, up to $150,000,000 may be available to carry out 
this section.
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SEC. 218. PARTNERSHIP INTERMEDIARIES FOR PROMOTION 
OF DEFENSE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. 
Section 2368 of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 
subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the following 
new subsection (f): 
‘‘(f) USE OF PARTNERSHIP INTERMEDIARIES TO PRO-
MOTE DEFENSE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION.—(1) Subject 
to the approval of the Secretary or the head of the another 
department or agency of the Federal Government concerned, 
the Director of a Center may enter into a contract, memo-
randum of understanding or other transition with a part-
nership intermediary that provides for the partnership 
intermediary to perform services for the Department of De-
fense that increase the likelihood of success in the conduct 
of cooperative or joint activities of the Center with industry 
or academic institutions. 
‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘partnership inter-
mediary’ means an agency of a State or local government, 
or a nonprofit entity owned in whole or in part by, char-
tered by, funded in whole or in part by, or operated in 
whole or in part by or on behalf of a State or local govern-
ment, that assists, counsels, advises, evaluates, or otherwise 
cooperates with industry or academic institutions that need
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or can make demonstrably productive use of technology-re-
lated assistance from a Center.’’. 
SEC. 219. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR SURFACE 
NAVY LASER WEAPON SYSTEM. 
(a) LIMITATION.—None of the funds authorized to be 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may 
be used to exceed a procurement quantity of one Surface 
Navy Laser Weapon System, also known as the High En-
ergy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with Surveil-
lance (HELIOS), per fiscal year, unless the Secretary of 
the Navy submits to the congressional defense committees 
a report on such system with the elements set forth in sub-
section (b). 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The elements set forth in this sub-
section are, with respect to the system described in sub-
section (a), the following: 
(1) A document setting forth the requirements for 
the system, including desired performance characteris-
tics. 
(2) An acquisition plan that includes the fol-
lowing: 
(A) A program schedule to accomplish de-
sign completion, technology maturation, risk re-
duction, and other activities, including dates of 
key design reviews (such as Preliminary Design
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Review and Critical Design Review) and pro-
gram initiation decision (such as Milestone B) if 
applicable. 
(B) A contracting strategy, including re-
quests for proposals, the extent to which contracts 
will be competitively awarded, option years, op-
tion quantities, option prices, and ceiling prices. 
(C) The fiscal years of procurement and de-
livery for each engineering development model, 
prototype, or similar unit planned to be ac-
quired. 
(D) A justification for the fiscal years of 
procurement and delivery for each engineering 
development model, prototype, or similar unit 
planned to be acquired. 
(3) A test plan and schedule sufficient to achieve 
operational effectiveness and operational suitability 
determinations (such as Early Operational Capa-
bility and Initial Operational Capability) related to 
the requirements set forth in paragraph (1). 
(4) Associated funding and item quantities, 
disaggregated by fiscal year and appropriation, re-
quested in the Fiscal Year 2019 Future Years Defense 
Program.
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(5) An estimate of the acquisition costs, includ-
ing the total costs for procurement, research, develop-
ment, test, and evaluation. 
SEC. 220. EXPANSION OF COORDINATION REQUIREMENT 
FOR SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY IN-
NOVATION 
AND 
ENTREPRENEURIAL 
EDU-
CATION. 
Section 225(e) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115–91) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(16) The National Security Technology Accel-
erator.’’. 
SEC. 221. LIMITATION ON FUNDING FOR AMPHIBIOUS COM-
BAT VEHICLE 1.2. 
None of the funds authorized by this Act or otherwise 
made available for the Marine Corps for fiscal year 2019 
for the development of Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.2 may 
be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has 
submitted to the congressional defense committees— 
(1) the report required under subsection (b) of 
section 1041; or 
(2) the information required under paragraph 
(5) of such subsection.
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SEC. 222. DEFENSE QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
carry out a quantum information science and technology 
research and development program. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the program required 
by subsection (a) are as follows: 
(1) To ensure global superiority of the United 
States in quantum information science necessary for 
meeting national security requirements. 
(2) To coordinate all quantum information 
science and technology research and development 
within the Department of Defense and to provide for 
interagency cooperation and collaboration on quan-
tum information science and technology research and 
development between the Department of Defense and 
other departments and agencies of the United States 
and appropriate private sector entities that are in-
volved in quantum information science and tech-
nology research and development. 
(3) To develop and manage a portfolio of funda-
mental and applied quantum information science and 
technology and engineering research initiatives that is 
stable, consistent, and balanced across scientific dis-
ciplines.
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(4) To accelerate the transition and deployment 
of technologies and concepts derived from quantum 
information science and technology research and de-
velopment into the Armed Forces, and to establish 
policies, procedures, and standards for measuring the 
success of such efforts. 
(5) To collect, synthesize, and disseminate crit-
ical information on quantum information science and 
technology research and development. 
(6) To establish and support appropriate re-
search, innovation, and industrial base, including fa-
cilities and infrastructure, to support the needs of De-
partment of Defense missions and systems related to 
quantum information science and technology. 
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—In carrying out the program 
required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall act through 
the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer-
ing, who shall supervise the planning, management, and 
coordination of the program. The Under Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Secretaries of the military departments 
and the heads of participating Defense Agencies and other 
departments and agencies of the United States, shall— 
(1) prescribe a set of long-term challenges and a 
set of specific technical goals for the program, includ-
ing—
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(A) optimization of analysis of national se-
curity data sets; 
(B) design of new materials and molecular 
functions; 
(C) secure communications and cryptog-
raphy; 
(D) quantum sensing and metrology; 
(E) development of mathematics to support 
defense 
missions 
related 
to 
quantum-based 
encryption techniques; and 
(F) processing and manufacturing of low- 
cost, robust, and reliable quantum information 
science and technology-enabled devices and sys-
tems; 
(2) develop a coordinated and integrated re-
search and investment plan for meeting the near-, 
mid-, and long-term challenges with definitive mile-
stones while achieving the specific technical goals that 
builds upon the Department’s increased investment in 
quantum information science and technology research 
and development, commercial sector and global invest-
ments, and other United States Government invest-
ments in the quantum sciences; 
(3) not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, develop and continuously up-
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date guidance, including classification and data man-
agement plans for defense-related quantum informa-
tion science and technology activities, and policies for 
control of personnel participating on such activities 
to minimize the effects of loss of intellectual property 
in basic and applied quantum science and informa-
tion considered sensitive to the leadership of the 
United States in the field of quantum computing; and 
(4) develop memoranda of agreement, joint fund-
ing agreements, and other cooperative arrangements 
necessary for meeting the long-term challenges and 
achieving the specific technical goals. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 2020, the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a re-
port on the program, in both classified and unclassified for-
mat. 
SEC. 223. JOINT DIRECTED ENERGY TEST ACTIVITIES. 
(a) TEST ACTIVITIES.—The Under Secretary of De-
fense for Research and Engineering shall develop, establish, 
and coordinate directed energy testing activities adequate 
to ensure the achievement by the Department of Defense of 
goals of the Department for developing and deploying di-
rected energy systems to match national security needs.
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3334 
AN ACT 
To provide for the imposition of sanctions on members of 
the National Communist Party Congress of the People’s 
Republic of China, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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(b) ELEMENTS.—The activity established under sub-
section (a) shall include the following: 
(1) The High Energy Laser System Test Facility 
of the Army Test and Evaluation Command. 
(2) Such other test resources and activities as the 
Under Secretary may designate for purposes of this 
section. 
(c) DESIGNATION.—The test activities established 
under subsection (a) shall be considered part of the Major 
Range and Test Facility Base (as defined in 196(i) of title 
10, United States Code). 
(d) DIRECTION AND CONTROL.—The conduct of testing 
activities under subsection (a) shall be subject to authority, 
direction, and control of the Under Secretary in the Under 
Secretary’s capacity as the official with principal responsi-
bility for the development and demonstration of directed en-
ergy weapons for the Department pursuant to section 
219(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 2017 (10 U.S.C. 2431 note). 
(e) PRIORITIZATION OF EFFORT.—In developing and 
coordinating testing activities pursuant to subsection (a), 
the Under Secretary shall prioritize efforts consistent with 
the following:
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(1) Paragraphs (2) through (5) of section 219(a) 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2017 (10 U.S.C. 2431 note). 
(2) Enabling the standardized collection and 
evaluation of testing data to establish testing ref-
erences and benchmarks. 
(3) Concentrating sufficient personnel expertise 
of directed energy weapon systems in order to vali-
date the effectiveness of new weapon systems against 
a variety of targets. 
(4) Consolidating modern state-of-the-art testing 
infrastructure including telemetry, sensors, and optics 
to support advanced technology testing and evalua-
tion. 
(5) Formulating a joint lethality or vulner-
ability information repository that can be accessed by 
any of the military departments of Defense Agencies, 
similar to a Joint Munitions Effectiveness Manuals 
(JMEMs). 
(6) Reducing duplication of directed energy 
weapon testing. 
(7) Ensuring that an adequate workforce and 
adequate testing facilities are maintained to support 
missions of the Department of Defense.
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SEC. 224. REQUIREMENT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF AR-
RANGEMENTS FOR EXPEDITED ACCESS TO 
TECHNICAL TALENT AND EXPERTISE AT ACA-
DEMIC INSTITUTIONS TO SUPPORT DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE MISSIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a)(1) of section 217 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2018 (Public Law 115–91) is amended by striking ‘‘may’’ 
and inserting ‘‘shall’’. 
(b) EXTENSION.—Subsection (f) of such section is 
amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2020’’ and inserting 
‘‘September 30, 2022’’. 
SEC. 225. AUTHORITY FOR JOINT DIRECTED ENERGY TRAN-
SITION OFFICE TO CONDUCT RESEARCH RE-
LATING TO HIGH POWERED MICROWAVE CA-
PABILITIES. 
Section 219(b)(3) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328; 10 
U.S.C. 2431 note) is amended by inserting ‘‘, including 
high-powered microwaves,’’ after ‘‘energy systems and tech-
nologies’’. 
SEC. 226. JOINT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH, DE-
VELOPMENT, AND TRANSITION ACTIVITIES. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
establish a set of activities within the Department of
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Defense to coordinate the efforts of the Department to 
develop, mature, and transition artificial intelligence 
technologies into operational use. 
(2) EMPHASIS.—The set of activities established 
under paragraph (1) shall apply artificial intel-
ligence and machine learning solutions to operational 
problems and coordinate activities involving artificial 
intelligence and artificial intelligence enabled capa-
bilities within the Department. 
(b) DESIGNATION.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall designate a senior official of the Department of De-
fense with principal responsibility for the coordination of 
activities relating to the development and demonstration of 
artificial intelligence and machine learning for the Depart-
ment. 
(c) DUTIES.—The duties of the official designated 
under subsection (b) shall include the following: 
(1) STRATEGIC
PLAN.—Developing a detailed 
strategic plan to develop, mature, adopt, and transi-
tion artificial intelligence technologies into oper-
ational use. Such plan shall include the following: 
(A) A strategic roadmap for the identifica-
tion and coordination of the development and
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fielding of artificial intelligence technologies and 
key enabling capabilities. 
(B) The continuous evaluation and adapta-
tion of relevant artificial intelligence capabilities 
developed both inside the Department and in 
other organizations for military missions. 
(2) 
ACCELERATION
OF
DEVELOPMENT
AND 
FIELDING OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.—To the de-
gree practicable, the designated official shall— 
(A) use the flexibility of regulations, per-
sonnel, or other relevant policies of the Depart-
ment to accelerate the development and fielding 
of artificial intelligence capabilities; 
(B) ensure engagement with defense and 
private industries, research universities, and un-
affiliated, nonprofit research institutions; 
(C) provide technical advice and support to 
entities in the Department of Defense and the 
military departments to optimize the use of arti-
ficial intelligence and machine learning tech-
nologies to meet Department missions; 
(D) support the development of require-
ments for artificial intelligence capabilities that 
address the highest priority capability gaps of 
the Department and technical feasibility;
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(E) develop and support capabilities for 
technical analysis and assessment of threat capa-
bilities based on artificial intelligence; 
(F) ensure that the Department has appro-
priate workforce and capabilities at laboratories, 
test ranges, and within the organic defense in-
dustrial base to support the artificial intelligence 
capabilities and requirements of the Department; 
(G) develop classification guidance for all 
artificial intelligence related activities of the De-
partment; 
(H) work with appropriate officials to de-
velop appropriate ethical, legal, and other poli-
cies for the Department governing the develop-
ment and use of artificial intelligence enabled 
systems and technologies in operational situa-
tions; and 
(I) ensure— 
(i) that artificial intelligence programs 
of each military department and of the De-
fense Agencies are consistent with the prior-
ities identified under this section; and 
(ii) appropriate coordination of artifi-
cial intelligence activities of the Department 
with interagency, industry, and inter-