S.Amdt. 4537

SA 4537. Mr. WARNER 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1283. BRIEFING ON UNITED STATES-INDIA JOINT DEFENSE AND
RELATED INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
provide to the appropriate committees of Congress a briefing
on joint defense and related industrial and technology
research and development and personnel exchange opportunities
between the United States and India.
(b) Matters To Be Included.--The briefing under subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) A status update on the Defense Technology and Trade
Initiative and its efforts to increase private sector
industrial cooperation.
(2) An assessment of whether additional funds are necessary
for the Defense Technology and Trade Initiative for seed
funding and personnel exchanges.
(3) An assessment of whether the Israel-U.S. Binational
Industrial Research and Development Foundation and Fund
provides a model for United States and India private sector
collaboration on defense and critical technologies.
(4) A status update on the collaboration between the
Department of Defense Innovation Unit and the Innovations for
Defence Excellence program of the Ministry of Defence of
India to enhance the capacity of the Department of Defense
and Ministry of Defence of India to identify and source
solutions to military requirements by accessing cutting-edge
commercial technology through nontraditional processes.
(c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
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