S.Amdt. 5925

SA 5925. Mr. TILLIS 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 XVI, insert the following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON TACTICAL SCALABLE MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK AND OTHER COMMERCIAL MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the progress made in developing the Tactical Scalable Mobile (TSM) ad-hoc network of the Army.

(b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) shall include the following:

(1) A description of the efforts to improve the networking function while on the move, data throughput, and ease of integration with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (C-JADC2) of the Tactical Scalable Mobile network.

(2) A description of the efforts to utilize the Tactical Scalable Mobile network to consolidate the nationwide network architecture in the exit from Afghanistan.

(3) A description of how the Army provides off and on ramps of technology to its capability sets.

(4) Identification of any impediments that limit the ability of the Army to consider other commercial-off-the-shelf mobile ad-hoc network technologies that have previously been or are currently being assessed.

(5) An assessment of other mobile ad-hoc network capabilities in use today that are complimentary of existing single channel ground and airborne radio systems and legacy, disparate communications-based systems.

(6) An assessment of the resilience of the Tactical Scalable Mobile network and other mobile ad-hoc network technologies against electronic attack.

(7) An assessment of the current fleet of vehicles, aircraft, and tactical operations centers not included in the capability set aligned units that would benefit from non-developmental mobile ad-hoc networks.