S.Amdt. 6077

SA 6077. Mr. ROUNDS 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 D of title III, add the following:

SEC. 357. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROCUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGY FOR WEAPONS SYSTEMS.

It is the Sense of Congress that in order to begin to improve the mission readiness of the critical weapons systems of the United States and to materially reduce costs associated with the maintenance of those weapons systems, such sums as needed should be appropriated for the procurement of technology that has been validated to simultaneously monitor circuit paths under test and continuously detect and isolate the precise location of intermittent circuit failures in durations as short as 100 nanoseconds.