S.Amdt. 4485

SA 4485. Mr. LEVIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the following:

SEC. __. TESTING AND OPERATIONS FOR MISSILE DEFENSE.

(a) Availability of Additional Amounts Within Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Defense-Wide.--Within amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for research, development, test, and evaluation for Defense-wide activities, the amount available for the Missile Defense Agency for ballistic missile defense is hereby increased by $45,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available for Ballistic Missile Defense Midcourse Defense Segment (PE # 63882C)--

(1) to increase the pace of realistic flight testing of the ground-based midcourse defense segment; and

(2) to accelerate the ability to conduct concurrent test and missile defense operations.

(b) Supplement.--Amounts available under subsection (a) for the program element referred to in that subsection are in addition to any other amounts available in this Act for the purposes specified in subsection (a).