To accelerate accreditation and access to sensitive compartmented information facilities for industry, and for other purposes.

This bill would require the Secretary of Defense to send Congress's defense committees a plan within 180 days to speed up the approval, building, and use of commercial secure facilities where private companies can handle classified information. The plan must recommend allowing security plan reviews, construction, and technology setup to happen at the same time. It must study using standard building templates, letting trained military personnel review construction plans, and allowing classified computer networks in contractor facilities. It must also propose treating shared commercial classified facilities as valid workplaces for all Defense Department classified work and creating a central digital system, including artificial intelligence tools, to manage these facilities. The plan must list any added authority or funding needed to carry it out.

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Sponsors

• Patrick Ryan Democrat sponsor
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