S.Amdt. 846

SA 846. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe 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. ___. USE OF TESTING FACILITIES TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP
HYPERSONIC TECHNOLOGY.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide a briefing
to the congressional defense committees on the costs and
benefits of the use and potential refurbishment of existing
operating and mothballed Federal research and testing
facilities to support hypersonics activities of the
Department of Defense.
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