S.Amdt. 4493

SA 4493. Mr. RISCH 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. REPORT ON CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT OF INDO-PACIFIC
ALLIES AND PARTNERS.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Secretary of State should expand and strengthen
existing measures under the United States Conventional Arms
Transfer Policy to provide capabilities to allies and
partners consistent with agreed-on division of responsibility
for alliance roles, missions and capabilities, prioritizing
allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region in accordance
with United States strategic imperatives;
(2) the United States should design for export to Indo-
Pacific allies and partners capabilities critical to
maintaining a favorable military balance in the region,
including long-range precision fires, air and missile defense
systems, anti-ship cruise missiles, land attack cruise
missiles, conventional hypersonic systems, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, and command
and control systems;
(3) the United States should pursue, to the maximum extent
possible, anticipatory technology security and foreign
disclosure policy on the systems described in paragraph (2);
and
(4) the Secretary of State, in coordination with the
Secretary of Defense, should--
(A) urge allies and partners to invest in sufficient
quantities of munitions to meet contingency requirements and
avoid the need for accessing United States stocks in wartime;
and
(B) cooperate with allies to deliver such munitions, or
when necessary, to increase allies' capacity to produce such
munitions.
(b) Appropriate Committees of Congress.--In this section,
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(c) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in
coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to
the appropriate committees of Congress a report that
describes United States priorities for building more capable
security partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
(2) Matters to be included.--The report required under
paragraph (1) shall--
(A) provide a priority list of defense and military
capabilities that Indo-Pacific allies and partners must
possess for the United States to be able to achieve its
military objectives in the Indo-Pacific region;
(B) identify, from the list referred to in subparagraph
(A), the capabilities that are best provided, or can only be
provided, by the United States;
(C) identify--
(i) actions required to prioritize United States Government
resources and personnel to expedite fielding the capabilities
identified in subparagraph (B); and
(ii) steps needed to fully account for and a plan to
integrate all means of United States foreign military sales,
direct commercial sales, security assistance, and all
applicable authorities of the Department of State and the
Department of Defense;
(D) assess the requirements for United States security
assistance, including International Military Education and
Training, in the Indo-Pacific region, as a part of the means
to deliver critical partner capability requirements
identified in subparagraph (B);
(E) assess the resources necessary to meet the requirements
for United States security assistance, and identify resource
gaps;
(F) assess the major obstacles to fulfilling requirements
for United States security assistance in the Indo-Pacific
region, including resources and personnel limits, foreign
legislative and policy barriers, and factors related to
specific partner countries;
(G) identify limitations on the ability of the United
States to provide such capabilities, including those
identified under subparagraph (B), because of existing United
States treaty obligations, United States policies, or other
regulations;
(H) recommend improvements to the process for developing
requirements for United States partner capabilities; and
(I) identify required jointly agreed recommendations for
infrastructure and posture, based on any ongoing mutual
dialogues.
(3) Form.--The report required under this subsection shall
be unclassified, but may include a classified annex.
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