S.Amdt. 4585

SA 4585. Mr. MANCHIN 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 XXXI, add the following:

SEC. 3157. UNIVERSITY-BASED NUCLEAR POLICY COLLABORATION
PROGRAM.

(a) In General.--Title XLIII of the Atomic Energy Defense
Act (50 U.S.C. 2565 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end
the following new section:

``SEC. 4312. UNIVERSITY-BASED NUCLEAR POLICY COLLABORATION
PROGRAM.

``(a) Program.--The Administrator shall carry out a program
under which the Administrator establishes a policy research
consortium of institutions of higher education and nonprofit
entities in support of implementing and innovating the
defense nuclear policy programs of the Administration. The
Administrator shall establish and carry out such program in a
manner similar to the program established under section 4814.
``(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the consortium established
under subsection (a) are as follows:
``(1) To shape the formulation and application of policy
through the conduct of research and analysis regarding
defense nuclear policy programs.
``(2) To maintain open-source databases on issues relevant
to understanding defense nuclear nonproliferation, arms
control, nuclear deterrence, foreign nuclear programs, and
nuclear security.
``(3) To facilitate the collaboration of research centers
of excellence relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation to
better distribute expertise to specific issues and scenarios
regarding such threats.
``(c) Duties.--
``(1) Support.--The Administrator shall ensure that the
consortium established under subsection (a) provides support
to individuals described in paragraph (2) through the use of
nongovernmental fellowships, scholarships, research
internships, workshops, short courses, summer schools, and
research grants.
``(2) Individuals described.--Individuals described in this
paragraph are graduate students, academics, and policy
specialists, who are focused on policy innovation related
to--
``(A) defense nuclear nonproliferation;
``(B) arms control;
``(C) nuclear deterrence;
``(D) the study of foreign nuclear programs;
``(E) nuclear security; or
``(F) educating and training the next generation of defense
nuclear policy experts.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the
Atomic Energy Defense Act is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 4311 the following new item:

``Sec. 4312. University-based nuclear policy collaboration program.''.
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