- ancillary transaction
means, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary—
- antitrust laws
has the meaning given to such term in subsection (a) of section 12 of title 15, except that such term includes section 45 of title 15 to the extent that such section 45 applies to unfair methods of competition.
- appropriate congressional committees
means—
- biological data
means multiomic information and other relevant information, including associated descriptors, derived from the structure, function, or process of a biological system, that is either measured, collected, or aggregated for analysis, including information from humans, animals, plants, or microbes.
- control
means the power, direct or indirect, whether exercised or not exercised, to determine, direct, or decide important matters affecting an entity, subject to regulations prescribed by the Committee.
- country of concern
means—
- covered entity
means a private entity involved in biological data (including biological data equipment, technologies, sequencing, or synthesis), including a biobank or other private entity that holds large amounts of biological data.
- covered foreign person
means a foreign person that—
- covered national security transaction
means a United States person’s direct or indirect—
- covered transaction
includes any transaction described in subparagraph (B) that arises pursuant to a bankruptcy proceeding or other form of default on debt.
- critical component
includes such components, subsystems, systems, and related special tooling and test equipment essential to the production, repair, maintenance, or operation of weapon systems or other items of equipment identified by the President as being essential to the execution of the national security strategy of the United States.
- critical infrastructure
means, subject to regulations prescribed by the Committee, systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems or assets would have a debilitating impact on national security.
- critical technologies
means the following:
- critical technology
includes any technology designated by the President to be essential to the national defense.
- critical technology item
means materials directly employing, derived from, or utilizing a critical technology.
- defense contractor
means any person who enters into a contract with the United States—
- domestic industrial base
means domestic sources which are providing, or which would be reasonably expected to provide, materials or services to meet national defense requirements during peacetime, national emergency, or war.
- domestic source
means a business concern—
- entity controlled by a foreign government
includes— as determined by the President.
- facilities
includes all types of buildings, structures, or other improvements to real property (but excluding farms, churches or other places of worship, and private dwelling houses), and services relating to the use of any such building, structure, or other improvement.
- foreign entity of concern
has the meaning given that term in section 19221(a) of title 42.
- foreign government-controlled transaction
means any covered transaction that could result in the control of any United States business by a foreign government or an entity controlled by or acting on behalf of a foreign government.
- foreign person
has the meaning given that term in regulations prescribed in accordance with this subchapter.
- foreign source
means a business entity other than a “domestic source”.
- guaranteeing agency
means a department or agency of the United States engaged in procurement for the national defense.
- homeland security
includes efforts—
- industrial resources
means materials, services, processes, or manufacturing equipment (including the processes, technologies, and ancillary services for the use of such equipment) needed to establish or maintain an efficient and modern national defense industrial base.
- intelligence community
has the meaning given that term in section 3003(4) of title 50.
- investment
means the acquisition of equity interest, including contingent equity interest, as further defined in regulations prescribed by the Committee.
- lead agency
means the agency or agencies designated as the lead agency or agencies pursuant to subsection (k)(5).
- material nonpublic technical information
means information that—
- materials
includes—
- national defense
means programs for military and energy production or construction, military or critical infrastructure assistance to any foreign nation, homeland security, stockpiling, space, and any directly related activity.
- notifiable technology
means a technology within the following areas not already captured by the technical thresholds specified by any regulations issued in accordance with section 4581 of this title:
- other investment
means an investment, direct or indirect, by a foreign person in a United States business described in that subparagraph that is not an investment described in subparagraph (B)(i) and that affords the foreign person—
- party
has the meaning given that term in regulations prescribed by the Committee.
- person
includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other organized group of persons, or legal successor or representative thereof, or any State or local government or agency thereof.
- plan of action
means any of 1 or more documented methods adopted by participants in an existing voluntary agreement to implement that agreement.
- prohibited technology
means a technology within the following areas, as specified by the regulations:
- proscribed category of information
means a category of information that—
- Secretary
means the Secretary of the Treasury.
- services
includes any effort that is needed for or incidental to—
- small business concern
means a business concern that meets the requirements of section 632(a) of title 15 and the regulations promulgated pursuant to that section, and includes such business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals or by women.
- substantial interest
has the meaning given that term in regulations which the Committee shall prescribe.
- United States
means the several States, the District of Columbia, and any territory or possession of the United States.
- United States business
means a person engaged in interstate commerce in the United States.
- United States person
means—