Title: Promoting United States International Leadership in 5G Act of 2021
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Promoting United States International Leadership in 5G Act of 2021
This bill directs the President to establish an interagency working group to provide assistance and technical expertise to enhance U.S. leadership in international bodies that set standards for 5th and future generations of mobile telecommunications (5G) technology, such as the International Telecommunication Union. The President shall also work to increase the participation of allies, partners, and the private sector. (International bodies develop standards for certain technologies, such as those used in wireless data transmission, to ensure interoperability between different companies' products; stakeholders, such as companies that manufacture equipment that uses such technologies or companies that hold relevant patents, typically participate in the standards-setting process.)
The interagency working group must report to Congress on (1) its strategy to promote U.S. leadership in the standards-setting bodies relevant to 5G technology; (2) its strategy for diplomatic engagement with allies and partners to share security-risk information related to 5G; (3) its strategy for engagement with private sector communications and information service providers; and (4) China's activities in standards-setting bodies for 5G technology, including the scope and scale of such activities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1934 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1934

 To direct the Federal Government to provide assistance and technical 
 expertise to enhance the representation and leadership of the United 
States at international standards-setting bodies that set standards for 
   equipment, systems, software, and virtually defined networks that 
 support 5th and future generations mobile telecommunications systems 
              and infrastructure, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2021

   Mr. McCaul (for himself, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Reschenthaler, and Mr. 
  Langevin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Federal Government to provide assistance and technical 
 expertise to enhance the representation and leadership of the United 
States at international standards-setting bodies that set standards for 
   equipment, systems, software, and virtually defined networks that 
 support 5th and future generations mobile telecommunications systems 
              and infrastructure, 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 ``Promoting United States 
International Leadership in 5G Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the United States and its allies and partners should 
        maintain participation and leadership at international 
        standards-setting bodies for 5th and future generations mobile 
        telecommunications systems and infrastructure;
            (2) the United States should work with its allies and 
        partners to encourage and facilitate the development of secure 
        supply chains and networks for 5th and future generations 
        mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure; and
            (3) the maintenance of a high standard of security in 
        telecommunications and cyberspace between the United States and 
        its allies and partners is a national security interest of the 
        United States.

SEC. 3. ENHANCING REPRESENTATION AND LEADERSHIP OF UNITED STATES AT 
              INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS-SETTING BODIES.

    (a) In General.--The President shall establish an interagency 
working group to provide assistance and technical expertise to enhance 
the representation and leadership of the United States at international 
standards-setting bodies that set standards for equipment, systems, 
software, and virtually defined networks that support 5th and future 
generations mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure, such 
as the International Telecommunication Union and the 3rd Generation 
Partnership Project. The President shall also work with allies and 
partners, as well as the private sector, to increase productive 
engagement.
    (b) Interagency Working Group.--The interagency working group 
described in subsection (a) shall--
            (1) be chaired by the Secretary of State or a designee of 
        the Secretary of State; and
            (2) consist of the head (or designee) of each Federal 
        department or agency the President determines appropriate.
    (c) Briefing.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act and subsequently thereafter as 
        provided in paragraph (2), the interagency working group 
        described in subsection (a) shall provide to the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a briefing that 
        shall include--
                    (A) a strategy to promote United States leadership 
                at international standards-setting bodies for 
                equipment, systems, software, and virtually defined 
                networks relevant to 5th and future generation mobile 
                telecommunications systems and infrastructure, taking 
                into account the different processes followed by the 
                various international standard-setting bodies;
                    (B) a strategy for diplomatic engagement with 
                allies and partners to share security risk information 
                and findings pertaining to equipment that supports or 
                is used in 5th and future generations mobile 
                telecommunications systems and infrastructure and 
                cooperation on mitigating such risks;
                    (C) a discussion of China's presence and activities 
                at international standards-setting bodies relevant to 
                5th and future generation mobile telecommunications 
                systems and infrastructure, including information on 
                the differences in the scope and scale of China's 
                engagement at such bodies compared to engagement by the 
                United States or its allies and partners and the 
                security risks raised by Chinese proposals in such 
                standards-setting bodies; and
                    (D) a strategy for engagement with private sector 
                communications and information service providers, 
                equipment developers, academia, federally funded 
                research and development centers, and other private-
                sector stakeholders to propose and develop secure 
                standards for equipment, systems, software, and 
                virtually defined networks that support 5th and future 
                generation mobile telecommunications systems and 
                infrastructure.
            (2) Subsequent briefings.--Upon request by the Committee on 
        Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, or as determined 
        appropriate by the chair of the interagency working group 
        described in subsection (a), the interagency working group 
        shall provide to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
        of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
        the Senate an updated briefing relating to the matters 
        described in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1).
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