Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services

Part III of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018, as amended by section 2, is further amended by adding at the end the following: 1784. Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (a) Establishment The Secretary shall establish an Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (in this section referred to as the Office) within the Bureau of Industry and Security. (b) Organizational structure The head of the Office shall report directly to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Information and Communications Technology Supply Chains. (c) Duties The Office shall— (1) administer part IV; and (2) carry out such other duties as the Secretary or the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Information and Communications Technology Supply Chains may assign. (d) Availability of information to Congress (1) In general Any information obtained at any time by the Office in carrying out the duties of the Office under subsection (c), including in administering part IV, shall be made available to a committee or subcommittee of Congress of appropriate jurisdiction, upon the request of the chairman or ranking minority member of the committee or subcommittee. (2) Prohibition on further disclosure No committee or subcommittee referred to in paragraph (1), or any member thereof, may disclose any information made available under paragraph (1) that is submitted on a confidential basis unless the full committee determines that the withholding of that information is contrary to the national interest..