To authorize military-to-military exchanges with India.

SA 4344. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself, Mr. Warner, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr.
Kirk) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill
S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1247. MILITARY-TO-MILITARY EXCHANGES WITH INDIA.

To enhance military cooperation and encourage engagement in
joint military operations between the United States and
India, the Secretary of Defense may take appropriate actions
to ensure that exchanges between senior military officers and
senior civilian defense officials of the Government of India
and the United States Government--
(1) are at a level appropriate to enhance engagement
between the militaries of the two countries for developing
threat analysis, military doctrine, force planning,
logistical support, intelligence collection and analysis,
tactics, techniques, and procedures, and humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief;
(2) include exchanges of general and flag officers; and
(3) significantly enhance joint military operations,
including maritime security, counter-piracy, counter-terror
cooperation, and domain awareness in the Indo-Asia-Pacific
region.
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