Title: National Technology Industrial Base Enhancement Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
National Technology Industrial Base Enhancement Act of 2020
This bill establishes the National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council to address issues such as industrial security, supply-chain security, cybersecurity, foreign ownership, and management best practices.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3882 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3882

  To establish the National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral 
                                Council.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 3, 2020

  Mr. Rounds introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To establish the National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral 
                                Council.

    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 ``National Technology Industrial Base 
Enhancement Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL BASE 
              QUADRILATERAL COUNCIL.

    Section 2502 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council.--
(1) The chairman of the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base 
Council shall work with the equivalent designees in the countries that 
comprise the national technology industrial base to form the National 
Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council.
    ``(2) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council 
shall meet biannually to harmonize respective policies and regulations, 
and to propose new legislation that increases the seamless integration 
between the persons and organizations comprising the national 
technology and industrial base.
    ``(3) The National Technology Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council 
shall--
            ``(A) address and review issues related to indus- trial 
        security, supply-chain security, cybersecurity, regulating 
        foreign direct investment and foreign ownership, control and 
        influence mitigation, market research, technology assessment, 
        and research cooperation within public and private research and 
        development organizations and universities, technology and 
        export control measures, acquisition processes and oversight, 
        and management best practices; and
            ``(B) establish a mechanism for National Technology 
        Industrial Base Quadrilateral Council members to raise disputes 
        that arise within the national technology industrial base at a 
        government-to-government level.''.
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