S.Amdt. 4243

SA 4243. Mr. MENENDEZ 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 end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1253. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON
USE OF GRAY-ZONE TACTICS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC
MARITIME DOMAIN.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall
establish a joint interagency task force to assess, respond
to, and coordinate with United States allies and partners in
response to the use of gray-zone tactics by state and
nonstate actors in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain.
(b) Activities.--The task force established under
subsection (a) shall--
(1) conduct domain awareness operations, intelligence
fusion, and multi-sensor correlation to detect, monitor,
disrupt, and deter suspected gray-zone activities;
(2) promote security cooperation and capacity building to
respond to, disrupt, and deter gray-zone activities; and
(3) coordinate United States and partner country
initiatives, including across diplomatic, political,
economic, and military domains, to counter the use of gray-
zone tactics by adversaries.
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