To direct the Secretary of Commerce to submit to Congress a report containing an assessment of the value, cost, and feasibility of a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable connecting the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands, Ghana, and Nigeria.

This bill would require the Secretary of Commerce to deliver a one-year, non-classified report to Congress assessing the value, cost, and feasibility of building a trans-Atlantic submarine fiber optic cable that would connect the contiguous United States, the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), Ghana, and Nigeria. The assessment is framed around national security, digital security, and economic opportunities, and would consider infrastructure readiness, existing cable lifespans, and the security of current links to USVI. The report could also explore the potential creation of a data center and high-security cloud services facility in USVI (with independent power) to support U.S. military and national-security communications. The bill allows for a classified annex if needed, but requires the main report to be unclassified. It also defines terms related to trust and not-trust of entities involved in the project and notes that there is no mandatory data collection for the report.