S.Amdt. 5834

SA 5834. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 848. ACTIONS TO INCREASE AND STABILIZE THE SUPPLY OF MICROELECTRONICS FOR UNITED STATES COMPUTER NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED (CNC) MANUFACTURING BASE.

The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall--

(1) take immediate action to increase and stabilize the supply of microelectronics available to the United States computer numerically controlled (CNC) manufacturing base in order to sustain critical defense programs and the defense industrial base; and

(2) not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, jointly provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on efforts to carry out paragraph (1).