S.Amdt. 6120

SA 6120. Mr. THUNE 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 E of title III, add the following:

SEC. 372. REPORT ON SUSTAINMENT OF LONG-RANGE STRIKE AND STEALTH CAPABILITIES IN INDO-PACIFIC REGION.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force, in consultation with the Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the results of a study on the feasibility and advisability of constructing a low-observable restoration facility and other requisite maintenance facilities in Australia or other locations as determined by the Commander for the purposes of sustaining long-range strike and stealth capabilities and for bolstering logistical flexibility in the Indo-Pacific Region.