S.Amdt. 4471

SA 4471. Mr. PETERS (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) 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 I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. REPORT ON MILITARY TRAINING FOR OPERATIONS IN
DENSELY POPULATED URBAN TERRAIN.

(a) In General.--Not later than March 31, 2017, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report on plans and initiatives to
enhance existing urban training concepts, capabilities, and
facilities that could provide for new training opportunities
that would more closely resemble large, dense, heavily
populated urban environments. The report shall include
specific plans and efforts to provide for a realistic
environment for the training of large units with joint assets
and recently fielded technologies to exercise new tactics,
techniques, and procedures, including consideration of
anticipated urban military operations in or near the littoral
environment and maritime domain as well as the cyber domain.
(b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) may be
submitted in classified or unclassified form.
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