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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 5947. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . DOMESTIC PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENT FOR CRITICAL
QUANTUM HARDWARE.
(a) Requirement.—Except as provided in subsection (b),
beginning on the date that is one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense may not
procure any critical quantum hardware unless such hardware is
domestically manufactured by an entity 50 percent or more of
the ownership interest in which is held by United States
persons.
(b) Waiver.—
(1) Authority.—During the two-year period beginning on the
date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Defense may waive the requirement under
subsection (a) if the Secretary determines that—
(A) the critical quantum hardware is not domestically
manufactured in sufficient quantity or of satisfactory
quality;
(B) the procurement of domestically manufactured critical
quantum hardware would result in a cost increase of more than
25 percent; or
(C) the waiver is necessary to respond to an urgent
national security requirement.
(2) Sunset.—The authority to grant a waiver under
paragraph (1) shall terminate on the date that is three years
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) Notification and Justification.—Not later than 15 days
before granting a waiver
under subsection (b), the Secretary of Defense shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a written
notification that includes the following:
(1) An identification of the critical quantum hardware to
be procured.
(2) A detailed justification for the waiver, including the
specific basis under subsection (b)(1) upon which the waiver
is being granted.
(3) An assessment of domestic manufacturing capacity for
the hardware.
(4) A description of any efforts underway to develop or
expand domestic sources for the hardware.
(d) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Critical quantum hardware.—The term “critical quantum
hardware” means any of the following items designed for use
in quantum computing, quantum sensing, or quantum networking
systems:
(A) Cryogenic cooling systems, including dilution
refrigerators and pulse tube cryocoolers and cryostats.
(B) Laser systems.
(C) Cryogenic wiring assemblies.
(D) Radio frequency and microwave components, including
passive components (attenuators and connectors) and active
components (traveling-wave parametric amplifiers, Josephson
parametric amplifiers, high-electron-mobility transistors,
and circulators).
(2) Domestically manufactured.—The term “domestically
manufactured” means, with respect to critical quantum
hardware, that—
(A) the hardware was assembled in the United States; and
(B) not less than 55 percent of the components of the
hardware (as determined based on the cost of such components)
were—
(i) produced or manufactured in the United States; or
(ii) mined in the United States (as defined in section
638(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).
(3) United states person.—The term “United States
person” means—
(A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted
for permanent residence to the United States; or
(B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States
or any jurisdiction within the United States.