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Code · BILL · 117th Congress · S. 4112 (Introduced in Senate) — To address issues involving the economic statecraft of the United States, and for other purposes. · Sec. 221

Sec. 221. United States leadership and representation in standards-setting bodies

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It is the policy of the United States to ensure that the United States leads in the innovation of critical and emerging technologies, such as next-generation telecommunications, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors, and biotechnology, by— providing necessary investment and concrete incentives for the private sector to accelerate development of such technologies; modernizing export controls and investment screening regimes and associated policies and regulations; enhancing United States leadership in technical standards-setting bodies and avenues for developing norms regarding the use of emerging critical technologies; reducing United States barriers and increasing incentives for collaboration with allies and partners on the research and co-development of critical technologies; collaborating with allies and partners to protect critical technologies by— crafting multilateral export control measures; building capacity for defense technology security; safeguarding chokepoints in supply chains; and ensuring diversification; and designing major defense capabilities for export to allies and partners.
It is the sense of Congress that— the United States must lead in international bodies that set the governance norms and rules for critical digitally enabled technologies in order to ensure that those technologies operate within a free, secure, interoperable, and stable digital domain; the United States, along with allies and partners, should lead an international effort that utilizes all of the economic and diplomatic tools at its disposal to combat the expanding use of information and communications technology products and services to surveil, repress, and manipulate populations (also known as digital authoritarianism ); the United States should lead a global effort to ensure that freedom of information, including the ability to safely consume or publish information without fear of undue reprisals, is maintained as the digital domain becomes an increasingly integral mechanism for communication; the United States should lead a global effort to develop and adopt a set of common principles and standards for critical technologies to ensure that the use of such technologies cannot be abused by malign actors, whether those actors are governments or other entities, and that those actors do not threaten democratic governance or human rights; the United States and its allies and partners should maintain participation and leadership at international standards-setting bodies for 5th and future generation mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure; 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 generation mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure; and 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.
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 bodies that set standards for equipment, systems, software, and virtually defined networks that support 5th and future generation mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure, such as the International Telecommunication Union and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; and work with allies, partners, and the private sector to increase productive engagement with respect to the standards described in subparagraph (A).
The interagency working group described in paragraph
(1)shall— be chaired by the Secretary of State or a designee of the Secretary of State; and consist of the head (or designee) of each Federal department or agency the President determines appropriate. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and subsequently thereafter as provided under subparagraph (B), the interagency working group described in paragraph
(1)shall provide a strategy to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that addresses— promotion of 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; 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 generation mobile telecommunications systems and infrastructure and cooperation on mitigating such risks; 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 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. Upon receiving a request from the appropriate congressional committees, or as determined appropriate by the chair of the interagency working group described in paragraph (1), the interagency working group shall provide such committees an updated briefing that covers the matters described in clauses
(i)through
(iv)of subparagraph (A).
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