S.Amdt. 578

SA 578. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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. ___. PLAN TO ENHANCE THE EXTENDED DETERRENCE AND
ASSURANCE CAPABILITIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN
THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION.

(a) Finding.--Congress recognizes that North Korea's first
successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile
(ICBM) constitutes a grave and imminent threat to United
States security and to the security of United States allies
and partners in the Asia-Pacific region.
(b) Plan.--Not later than 30 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Commander of the United States Pacific
Command and the Commander of the United States Strategic
Command, shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a plan to enhance the extended deterrence and assurance
capabilities of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region.
(c) Matters To Be Included.--Such plan shall include
consideration of actions that will enhance United States
security by strengthening deterrence of North Korean
aggression and providing increased assurance to United States
allies in the Asia-Pacific region, including the following:
(1) Increased visible presence of key United States
military assets, such as missile defenses, long-range strike
assets, and intermediate-range strike assets to the region.
(2) Increased military cooperation, exercises, and
integration of defenses with allies in the region.
(3) Development and deployment of ground-based
intermediate-range missiles, whether by allies or by the
United States, if the United States were no longer bound by
the limitations of the INF Treaty.
(4) Increased foreign military sales to allies in the
region.
(5) Planning for, exercising, or deploying dual-capable
aircraft to the region.
(6) Any necessary modifications to the United States
nuclear force posture, including re-deployment of submarine-
launched nuclear cruise missiles to the region.
(7) Such other actions the Secretary considers appropriate
to strengthen extended deterrence and assurance in the
region.
(d) Form.--Such plan shall be submitted in unclassified
form, but may contain a classified annex.
(e) INF Treaty Defined.--In this section, the term ``INF
Treaty'' means the Treaty between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the
Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range
Missiles, signed at Washington December 8, 1987, and entered
into force June 1, 1988.
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