Sec. 891. Safeguarding defense-sensitive United States intellectual property, technology, and other data and information
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish, enforce, and track actions being taken to protect defense-sensitive United States intellectual property, technology, and other data and information, including hardware and software, from acquisition by the Government of the People's Republic of China. The Secretary of Defense shall establish and maintain a list of critical national security technology. The Secretary of Defense shall provide for mechanisms to restrict employees or former employees of the defense industrial base that contribute to the technology referenced in subsection
(b)from working directly for companies wholly owned by, or under the direction of, the Government of the Peoples Republic of China. Not later than May 1, 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on progress in implementing the measures described in subsections
(a)through (c). Not later than December 1, 2021, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report reviewing the report submitted under paragraph
(1)and providing an assessment of the effectiveness of the measures implemented under this section. The reports required under this subsection shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain classified annexes.