Sec. 2. Definitions

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Section 2 of the National Quantum Initiative Act ( 15 U.S.C. 8801 ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), the first paragraph

(8)(relating to the definition of the Subcommittee on Economic and Security Implications ), and the second paragraph

(8)(relating to the definition of the Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science ) as paragraphs (7), (9), (12), (13), (15), and (16), respectively; by inserting after paragraph

(3)the following new paragraphs: The term Federal laboratory has the meaning given such term in section 4 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 ( 15 U.S.C. 3703 ). The term foreign country of concern means— a country that is a covered nation (as such term is defined in section 4872(d) of title 10, United States Code); and any country that the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence, determines to be engaged in conduct that is detrimental to the national security or foreign policy of the United States. The term foreign entity of concern means a foreign entity that is— designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the Secretary of State under section 219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1189(a) ); included on the list of specially designated nationals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury (commonly known as the SDN list ); owned by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a government of a foreign country that is a covered nation (as such term is defined in section 4872 of title 10, United States Code); alleged by the Attorney General to have been involved in activities for which a conviction was obtained under— chapter 37 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the Espionage Act ); section 951 or 1030 of title 18, United States Code; chapter 90 of title 18, United States Code (commonly known as the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 ); the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq. ); section 224, 225, 226, 227, or 236 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 ( 42 U.S.C. 2274 , 2275, 2276, 2277, and 2284); the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 ( 50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq. ); or the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ); or determined by the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, to be engaged in unauthorized conduct that is detrimental to the national security or foreign policy of the United States. ; in paragraph (7), as so redesignated, by striking

(a)each place it appears; by inserting after paragraph (7), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph: The term National Laboratory has the meaning given such term in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15801 ). ; by inserting after paragraph (9), as so redesignated, the following new paragraphs: The term quantum applications means applications that use quantum information science engineering and technology, including quantum algorithms and software, quantum computing and quantum-classical hybrids, quantum sensing, quantum networking, quantum encryption, or quantum communications applications. The term quantum computing means any of a variety of quantum computing technologies, including quantum annealing and quantum gate-model systems that utilize a variety of qubit architectures, such as superconducting, ion traps, photonics, neutral atoms, spin atoms, or spin electrons. ; by amending paragraph (12), as so redesignated, to read as follows: The term quantum information science, technology, and engineering means the understanding, translation, use, or application of the laws of quantum physics for the storage, transmission, manipulation, computing, simulation, or measurement of information. ; and by inserting after paragraph (13), as so redesignated, the following new paragraph: The term STEM means the academic and professional disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including computer science. .

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