S.Amdt. 420

SA 420. Mr. GARDNER 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. MISSION PARTNER ENVIRONMENT.

The amount authorized to be appropriated by this Act for
fiscal year 2020 for the Department of Defense is hereby
increased by $53,200,000, with the amount of such increase to
be available for Mission Partner Environment in order to
support necessary infrastructure and data network investment
that facilitates multi-domain information sharing with allies
and like-minded partners and to address common challenges to
a Free and Open Info-Pacific in South Asia, South East Asia,
and Oceania.
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