S.Amdt. 2471

SA 2471. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Kaine) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe 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 end of subtitle A of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 815. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATIONAL IMPERATIVE FOR
INDUSTRIAL SKILLS PROGRAM.

(a) Authority.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out
and accelerate the Department of Defense National Imperative
for Industrial Skills Program within the Industrial Base
Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Office to evaluate and
further develop workforce development training programs for
training the skilled industrial workers needed in the defense
industrial base.
(2) Priorities.--In carrying out the program, the Secretary
shall prioritize--
(A) innovative training programs that can rapidly train
skilled workers for placement in the defense industrial base
faster than traditional training programs and at the scale
needed to measurably reduce, as rapidly as possible, the
manpower shortages that currently exist; and
(B) training programs that can address the specific
manufacturing requirements and skills that are unique to
critical industrial sectors of the defense industrial base,
such as naval shipbuilding.
(b) Funding.--
(1) Authorization of appropriations.--The amount authorized
to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal
year 2021 for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation,
Defense-wide and available for Industrial Base Analysis and
Sustainment Support is increased by $7,500,000, with the
amount of such increase to be available for pilot projects
carried out pursuant to subsection (a).
(2) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2021 for Operation
and Maintenance, Army and available for SAG 421 Servicewide
Transportation is reduced by $7,500,000.
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