S.Amdt. 613

SA 613. Mr. SULLIVAN 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 F of title XII, insert the
following:

SEC. 12__. REPORT ON ARCTIC CAPABILITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security,
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on the Arctic capabilities of the Armed Forces.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) A comparison of the capabilities of the United States,
the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and
other countries operating in the Arctic, including an
assessment of the ability of the navy of each such country to
operate in varying sea-ice conditions.
(2) A description of commercial and foreign military
surface forces currently operating in the Arctic in
conditions inaccessible to Navy surface forces.
(3) An assessment of the potential security risk posed to
Coast Guard forces by military forces of other countries
operating in the Arctic in conditions inaccessible to Navy
surface or aviation forces in the manner such forces
currently operate.
(4) A comparison of the domain awareness capabilities of--
(A) Coast Guard forces operating alone; and
(B) Coast Guard forces operating in tandem with Navy
surface and aviation forces and the surface and aviation
forces of other allies.
(5) A comparison of the defensive capabilities of--
(A) Coast Guard forces operating alone; and
(B) Coast Guard forces operating in mutual defense with
Navy forces, other Armed Forces, and the military forces of
allies.
(c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a
classified annex.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the congressional defense committees; and
(2) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
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