S.Amdt. 4224

SA 4224. Mr. BRAUN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 appropriate place in title II, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. STUDY ON RESEARCH PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

(a) Study Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall conduct
a study on the research programs of the Department of
Defense.
(b) Elements.--The study required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) Identification of all research programs of the
Department.
(2) Identification of which programs identified under
paragraph (1) are duplicates of each other and which programs
are duplicates of programs of other Federal agencies.
(3) For each program of the Department identified under
paragraph (2) that is a duplicate of another program of the
Department but is carried out by a different military
department or Defense Agency, identification of which
military department or Defense Agency is the most appropriate
entity to carry out the program.

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