Title: A bill to provide for assistance for small manufacturers in the defense industrial supply chain on matters relating to cybersecurity.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill authorizes the Department of Defense to award financial assistance to a Manufacturing Extension Center for the purpose of providing cybersecurity services to small manufacturers. The center must use such assistance for compliance with cybersecurity requirements and may use such assistance to employ trained personnel to deliver cybersecurity services to small manufacturers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4598 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4598

   To provide for assistance for small manufacturers in the defense 
     industrial supply chain on matters relating to cybersecurity.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 16, 2020

 Ms. Rosen (for herself and Mr. Young) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for assistance for small manufacturers in the defense 
     industrial supply chain on matters relating to cybersecurity.

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

SECTION 1. ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL MANUFACTURERS IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL 
              SUPPLY CHAIN ON MATTERS RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of appropriations, the 
Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology, may award financial assistance 
to a Center for the purpose of providing cybersecurity services to 
small manufacturers.
    (b) Criteria.--The Secretary, in consultation with the Director, 
shall establish and publish on the grants.gov website, or successor 
website, criteria for selecting recipients for financial assistance 
under this section.
    (c) Use of Financial Assistance.--Financial assistance under this 
section--
            (1) shall be used by a Center to provide small 
        manufacturers with cybersecurity services relating to--
                    (A) compliance with the cybersecurity requirements 
                of the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal 
                Acquisition Regulation, including awareness, 
                assessment, evaluation, preparation, and implementation 
                of cybersecurity services; and
                    (B) achieving compliance with the Cybersecurity 
                Maturity Model Certification framework of the 
                Department of Defense; and
            (2) may be used by a Center to employ trained personnel to 
        deliver cybersecurity services to small manufacturers.
    (d) Biennial Reports.--
            (1) In general.--Not less frequently than once every two 
        years, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense 
        committees, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
        Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Science, 
        Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a 
        biennial report on financial assistance awarded under this 
        section.
            (2) Contents.--To the extent practicable, each report 
        submitted under paragraph (1) shall include the following with 
        respect to the years covered by the report:
                    (A) The number of small manufacturing companies 
                assisted.
                    (B) A description of the cybersecurity services 
                provided.
                    (C) A description of the cybersecurity matters 
                addressed.
                    (D) An analysis of the operational effectiveness 
                and cost-effectiveness of the cybersecurity services 
                provided.
    (e) Termination.--The authority of the Secretary to award financial 
assistance under this section shall terminate on the date that is five 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (f) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``Center'' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 25(a) of the National Institute of Standards and 
        Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k(a)).
            (2) The term ``congressional defense committees'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, 
        United States Code.
            (3) The term ``small manufacturer'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 1644(g) of the John S. McCain National 
        Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-
        232; 10 U.S.C. 2224 note).
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