S.Amdt. 2778

SA 2778. Mr. DURBIN (for Ms. Duckworth) submitted an amendment
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe
(for himself and Mr. McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

Beginning on page 48, strike line 10 and all that follows
through page 49, line 6, and insert the following:
(1) A process for streamlined communications between the
Under Secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commanders of
the combatant commands, the science and technology executives
within each military department, the science and technology
community, and the manufacturing industrial base, including--
(A) a process for the commanders of the combatant commands
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to communicate their needs to
the science and technology community and the centers for
manufacturing innovation that comprise the Network for
Manufacturing Innovation; and
(B) a process for the science and technology community and
such centers to propose technologies that meet the needs
communicated by the combatant commands and the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
(2) Procedures for the development of technologies proposed
pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), including--
(A) a process for demonstrating performance of the proposed
technologies on a short timeline;
(B) a process for accelerating, transitioning, and
integrating new manufacturing technologies and processes
developed by the centers described in paragraph (1)(A);

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