S.Amdt. 3698

SA 3698. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___.  Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall,
acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Research, Development, and Acquisition, submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on current
investments of the Navy in research on energetics. The report
shall include the following:
(1) A comparison between current Navy investments in
research on energetics and current investments of the other
military departments in such research.
(2) A comparison between current Navy investments in
research on energtics and current investments in such
research by the naval ministries of each of the People's
Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the Russian
Federation.
(3) Recommendations for the most appropriate investments,
and amounts of investments, by the Navy in research on
energetics in the future.

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