S.Amdt. 1699

SA 1699. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 appropriate place in title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. ESTABLISHMENT OF ENERGETICS PROGRAM OFFICE.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall
establish an program office in the Department of the Navy to
coordinate innovative energetics research and to ensure a
robust and sustained energetics material enterprise.
(b) Designation.--The program office established under
subsection (a) shall be known as the ``Energetics Program
Office''.
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