S.Amdt. 4595

SA 4595. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) 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. 220. IDENTIFICATION OF THE HYPERSONICS FACILITIES AND
CAPABILITIES OF THE MAJOR RANGE AND TEST
FACILITY BASE.

(a) Identification Required.--Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Defense shall--
(1) identify each facility and capability of the Major
Range and Test Facility Base that is primarily concerned with
the ground-based simulation of hypersonic atmospheric flight
conditions and the test and evaluation of hypersonic
technology in open air flight;
(2) identify such facilities and capabilities that the
Secretary would propose to designate, collectively, as the
``Hypersonics Facility Base''; and
(3) identify facilities and capabilities within the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct
research, development, test, evaluation and acceptance of
hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems that the Secretary
would propose to use for the most efficient and effective
utilization of limited national aerospace test resources.
(b) Major Range and Test Facility Base Defined.--In this
section, the term ``Major

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Range and Test Facility Base'' has the meaning given that
term in section 196(i) of title 10, United States Code.
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