Title: Cyber Leap Act of 2020
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems Act of 2020 or the Cyber Leap Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish national cybersecurity grand challenges to achieve high-priority breakthroughs in cybersecurity.
These challenges will offer cash and noncash prizes to winners and shall include competitions that encompass
Commerce must designate an advisory council to seek recommendations for the scope of the challenges and for metrics to assess submissions for prizes.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3712 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3712

      To require the Secretary of Commerce to establish national 
        cybersecurity grand challenges, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 2020

  Mr. Wicker (for himself, Ms. Rosen, and Mr. Gardner) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                 Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require the Secretary of Commerce to establish national 
        cybersecurity grand challenges, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield 
Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems 
Act of 2020'' or the ``Cyber Leap Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY GRAND CHALLENGES.

    (a) In General.--Title II of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 
2014 (15 U.S.C. 7431 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 205. NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY GRAND CHALLENGES.

    ``(a) Establishment of National Cybersecurity Grand Challenges.--
            ``(1) In general.--To achieve high-priority breakthroughs 
        in cybersecurity by 2028, the Secretary of Commerce shall 
        establish the following national cybersecurity grand 
        challenges:
                    ``(A) Economics of a cyber attack.--Building more 
                resilient systems that measurably and exponentially 
                raise adversary costs of carrying out common cyber 
                attacks.
                    ``(B) Cyber training.--
                            ``(i) Empowering the people of the United 
                        States with an appropriate and measurably 
                        sufficient level of digital literacy to make 
                        safe and secure decisions online.
                            ``(ii) Developing a cybersecurity workforce 
                        with measurable skills to protect and maintain 
                        information systems.
                    ``(C) Emerging technology.--Advancing cybersecurity 
                efforts in response to emerging technology, such as 
                artificial intelligence, quantum science, and next 
                generation communications technologies.
                    ``(D) Reimagining digital identity.--Maintaining a 
                high sense of usability while improving the security 
                and safety of online activity of individuals in the 
                United States.
                    ``(E) Federal agency resilience.--Reducing 
                cybersecurity risks to Federal networks and systems, 
                and improving the response of Federal agencies to 
                cybersecurity incidents on such networks and systems.
                    ``(F) Other challenges.--Such other challenges as 
                the Secretary of Commerce considers appropriate to 
                achieve high-priority breakthroughs in cybersecurity.
            ``(2) Considerations.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
        Secretary shall consider the recommendations set forth in the 
        report of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory 
        Committee entitled `NSTAC Report to the President on a 
        Cybersecurity Moonshot' and dated November 14, 2018.
    ``(b) Pursuit of National Cybersecurity Grand Challenges.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
        of the enactment of the Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield 
        Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced 
        Problems Act of 2020, the Secretary, acting through the Under 
        Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, shall 
        commence efforts to pursue the national cybersecurity grand 
        challenges established under subsection (a).
            ``(2) Competitions.--The efforts required by paragraph (1) 
        shall include carrying out programs to award prizes, including 
        cash and noncash prizes, competitively pursuant to the 
        authorities and processes established under section 24 of the 
        Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 
        3719) or any other applicable provision of law.
            ``(3) Additional authorities.--In carrying out paragraph 
        (1), the Secretary may enter into and perform such other 
        transactions as the Secretary considers necessary and on such 
        terms as the Secretary considers appropriate.
            ``(4) Coordination.--In pursuing national cybersecurity 
        grand challenges under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall 
        coordinate with the following:
                    ``(A) The Director of the National Science 
                Foundation.
                    ``(B) The Director of the Cybersecurity and 
                Infrastructure Security Agency.
                    ``(C) The Director of the Defense Advanced Research 
                Projects Agency.
                    ``(D) The Director of the Office of Science and 
                Technology Policy.
                    ``(E) The Director of the Office of Management and 
                Budget.
                    ``(F) The Administrator of the General Services 
                Administration.
                    ``(G) The Federal Trade Commission.
                    ``(H) The heads of such other Federal agencies as 
                the Secretary of Commerce considers appropriate for 
                purposes of this section.
            ``(5) Solicitation of acceptance of funds.--Pursuant to 
        section 24 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 
        1980 (15 U.S.C. 3719), the Secretary shall request and accept 
        funds from other Federal agencies, State, United States 
        territory, local, or tribal government agencies, private sector 
        for-profit entities, and nonprofit entities to support efforts 
        to pursue a national cybersecurity grand challenge under this 
        section.
    ``(c) Recommendations.--
            ``(1) In general.--In carrying out this section, the 
        Secretary of Commerce shall designate an advisory council to 
        seek recommendations.
            ``(2) Elements.--The recommendations required by paragraph 
        (1) shall include the following:
                    ``(A) A scope for efforts carried out under 
                subsection (b).
                    ``(B) Metrics to assess submissions for prizes 
                under competitions carried out under subsection (b) as 
                the submissions pertain to the national cybersecurity 
                grand challenges established under subsection (a).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 201(a)(1) of such Act is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (J), by striking ``; and'' and 
        inserting a semicolon;
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (K) as subparagraph (L); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:
                    ``(K) implementation of section 205 through 
                research and development on the topics identified under 
                subsection (a) of such section; and''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 204 
the following:

``Sec. 205. National Cybersecurity Grand Challenges.''.
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