S.Amdt. 2792

SA 2792. Mr. INHOFE (for himself and Mr. Menendez) 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:

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

SEC. 1250. SENSE OF SENATE ON INCORPORATION OF NON-NUCLEAR
NAVAL PROPULSION AND TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES INTO THE
NAVAL VESSELS OF UNITED STATES ALLIES IN THE
INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

It is the sense of the Senate that, consistent with the
Conventional Arms Transfer Policy of the United States
Government recently updated to promote policies that
strengthen our allies and partners around the world and
preserve peace while creating American manufacturing jobs--
(1) it is in the interest of the United States that non-
nuclear naval propulsion and technology systems manufactured
in the United States be incorporated into warships of navies
of close allies of the United States, including Australia,
Canada, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and other countries
pursuing the modernization of their fleets; and
(2) naval cooperation arising from the incorporation of
such systems into such warships will--
(A) help guarantee interoperability and commonality of
warfighting systems between the United States and our allies
in the Indo-Pacific region; and
(B) promote the expansion of the dynamism and innovation of
the defense industry manufacturing supply chain in the United
States.
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