US SB3712 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Introduced on May 13 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-05-20 - Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Requires the Department of Commerce to establish national cybersecurity grand challenges to achieve high-priority breakthroughs in cybersecurity. These challenges will offer cash and noncash prizes to winners and shall include competitions that encompass building more resilient systems that raise adversary costs of carrying out common cyberattacks, empowering people with a sufficient level of digital literacy to make safe and secure decisions online and developing a cybersecurity workforce to protect and maintain information systems, advancing cybersecurity efforts in response to emerging technologies, maintaining usability while improving the security and safety of individuals' online activity, and reducing cybersecurity risks to federal networks and systems and improving the response of federal agencies to cybersecurity incidents. Commerce must designate an advisory council to seek recommendations for the scope of the challenges and for metrics to assess submissions for prizes.

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Title

Cyber Leap Act of 2020 Cybersecurity Competitions to Yield Better Efforts to Research the Latest Exceptionally Advanced Problems Act of 2020

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History

DateChamberAction
2020-05-20SenateCommittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
2020-05-13SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Same As/Similar To

HB8634 (Related) 2020-10-20 - Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

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