Senate Begins Consideration of HR 5515 – FY 2019 NDAA

Last week the Senate began debating the consideration of HR 5515. By the end of the week the Senate had passed a cloture vote to close that debate and will vote on Monday to begin actual deliberations of the bill. As I noted in an earlier blog post today, the Senate will start off by adopting SA 2282, the Senate’s substitute language taken from S 2987.

While the preliminaries to the actual debate have been taking up legislative time, Senator’s have been filing over 300 proposed amendments to the bill, over and above the substitute language mentioned above. Of those amendments there are 16 that may be of specific interest to readers of this blog:

SA 2285. Mr. WARNER - SEC. 1107. Department of Defense Cyber Scholarship Program [Pg S3224]

SA 2286. Mrs. FISCHER SEC. XXX. Developing Innovation and Growing the Internet of Things. [Pg S3224]

SA 2314. Mr. JOHNSON – SEC. XXX. Preventing Emerging Threats (Unmanned Aircraft) [Pg S3237]

SA 2369. Mr. HOEVEN - SEC. 1066. Sense of Senate on Management of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Within the National Airspace System. [Pg S3262]

SA 2376. Mr. PERDUE - SEC. XXX. UNITED STATES CYBER STRATEGY. [Pg S3303]

SA 2380. Mr. PERDUE - SEC. XXX. BRIEFING ON CYBER EDUCATION AND TRAINING. [Pg S3306]

SA 2384. Mr. HEINRICH - SEC. 1636A. APPOINTMENT OF CYBERSECURITY COORDINATOR. [Pg S3308]

SA 2436. Ms. COLLINS - SEC. XXX. REPORT ON STRENGTHENING NATO CYBER DEFENSE. [Pg S3337]

SA 2458. Mr. WHITEHOUSE - SEC. 1066. UNSAFE OPERATION OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT. [Pg S3345]

SA 2474. Mr. SCHATZ - SEC. 896. INTEGRATED PUBLIC ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEM. [Pg S3353]

SA 2483. Mr. WYDEN - SEC. XXX. FUNDING FOR NSF CYBER SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PROGRAM. [Pg S3355]

SA 2484. Mr. WYDEN - SEC. XXX. FUNDING FOR NSF CYBER SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PROGRAM. [Pg S3355]

SA 2509. Mr. MANCHIN - SEC. XXX. REPORT ON CYBER FORCES OF THE RESERVE COMPONENTS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND CYBERSPACE. [Pg S3360]

SA 2547. Mrs. SHAHEEN - SEC. 1626. ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL MANUFACTURERS IN THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CHAIN ON MATTERS RELATING TO CYBERSECURITY. [Pg S3373]

SA 2564. Mr. RUBIO SEC. XXX. PILOT PROGRAM TO TEST MACHINE-VISION TECHNOLOGIES TO DETERMINE THE AUTHENTICITY AND SECURITY OF MICROELECTRONIC PARTS IN WEAPON SYSTEMS. [Pg S3380]

SA 2567. Mr. WARNER - Subtitle G—Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act [Pg S3382]

Needless to say, very few of these amendments will make it to the floor of the Senate for consideration. And, as the consideration of the bill continues, there will be more amendments offered right up to the final cloture vote leads to a final floor vote on the bill. Given the large disparity between the number of amendments offered and those that actually get approved; I will hold off on analysis of the amendments until they are adopted.