S.Amdt. 312

SA 312. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. ENERGETICS PLAN.

The Secretary of the Navy shall, working with the technical
directors at the Naval Surface Warfare Centers, develop an
energetics research and development plan to ensure a long-
term multi-domain research, development, prototyping, and
experimentation effort that--
(1) improves the lethality, range, and speed of energetic
weapons;
(2) advances the development of high yield conventional
energetics capabilities; and
(3) increases the size of the national energetic workforce.
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