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handle is hein.congrec/devgrwg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: \ Congressional Budget Office f Cost Estimate August 16, 2019 By Fiscal Year, IVillions of Dollars 2019 2019-2024 2019-2029 Direct Spending (Outlays) 0 0 0 Revenues Deficit Effect 0 0 0 0 0 0 S. 1611 would require the Department of Commerce (DOC) to convene a federal interagency working group to report to the Congress on the Internet of things (loT).1 The group would be required to identify laws and regulations that inhibit or promote loT deployment, examine current and future federal loT use, and recommend federal loT security measures. The working group would consult with academic stakeholders and with those in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. S. 1611 also would establish a steering committee within DOC to advise the working group on JoT issues. Topics of study would include the economic effects of JoT and the availability of electromagnetic spectrum to meet users' demands. The committee would submit its findings to the working group, which would report them to the Congress. Finally, under S. 1611 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in consultation with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, would seek public comments on current and future spectrum needs to ensure adequate JoT connectivity and to report those findings to the Congress. Using information from the affected agencies, CBO estimates that implementing S. 1611 would cost $7 million over the 2020-2021 period for DOC to hire about 22 employees, to 1. The loT consists of devices connected one another and to a network for exchanging data without human interaction. See Suzy E. Park, Internet of Things (loT): An Introduction, In Focus Report 11239 (Congressional Research Service, June 4, 2019), https://go.usagov/xVcdR. See also CBO's Cost Estimates Explained, www.cbo.gov/publication/54437; How CBO Prepares Cost Estimates, www.cbo.gov/publication/53519; and Glossary, www.cbo.gov/publication/42904.

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