S.Amdt. 5840

SA 5840. Mr. CRUZ 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR F-35 C2D2.

(a) Sense of Congress.--In is the sense of Congress that--

(1) the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office is investigating the expanded use of commercial digital microelectronics engineering practices to enable affordably sustainable and agilely modernizable systems;

(2) the effort of the recent Joint Strike Fighter Digital Microelectronics Engineering pilot project which showed a significant reduction in risk to flight test while providing 100 percent coverage and requirements traceability within the verification test plan is to be commended;

(3) the move from manual data collection and analysis to 21st century commercial, advanced verification methodologies is long overdue; and

(4) the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office and the Service Joint Strike Fighter Transition Program Offices should apply commercial digital microelectronics engineering best practices, to be executed exclusively by companies accredited by the Department of Defense as trusted suppliers, to all future Joint Strike Fighter acquisition, sustainment, modernization, and diminishing manufacturing sources and materials shortages (DMSMS) efforts to achieve improved life-cycle-costs and capability delivery.

(b) Additional Amount.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2023 by section 201 for research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby increased by $20,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available for F-35 C2D2 (PE 0604840F).