S.Amdt. 6409
What it does: Adds SEC. 1077. SENSE OF SENATE ON INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE OF DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE at the end of subtitle G of title X
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA)What it changes
1 change to S.Amdt. 5499 · shown in S.Amdt. 5499's text
Adds SEC. 1077. SENSE OF SENATE ON INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE OF DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE at the end of subtitle G of title X
Adds a sectionIn S.Amdt. 5499 as proposed
(2) as a recognition of Senator Inhofe's long history of engaging with, and advocating for, Africa, the Department of Defense Africa Center for Strategic Studies should be renamed the James M. Inhofe Center for Africa Strategic Studies.
Inserted: SEC. 1077. SENSE OF SENATE ON INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE OF DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE.
Inserted: (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
Inserted: (1) Global supply chain disruptions have become more common, with recent events highlighting risks and vulnerabilities that undermine the national security of the United States.
Inserted: (2) The February 2022 report of the Department of Defense entitled "Securing Defense-Critical Supply Chains: An action plan developed in response to President Biden's Executive Order 14017" and the 2022 industrial capabilities report of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy each outline strategic focus areas and enabling capabilities, and associated vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations to strengthen the defense industrial base.
Inserted: (3) The Department of Defense relies on a skilled workforce to innovate, produce, and sustain weapon systems.
Inserted: (4) Decades of erosion across workforce development pipelines jeopardize and threaten the United States industrial base's ability to remain competitive.
Inserted: (5) The Department of Defense has expressed that a focus area for investment in fiscal year 2023 will be efforts that continue to focus on recruitment, training, and placing skilled workers in support of defense priorities and in support of priority defense programs.
Inserted: (6) The stated primary effort by the Department of Defense will be a major, multi-year, endeavor with the Navy, focused on ensuring the health and capacity of the submarine workforce of the Department of Defense.
Inserted: (7) The Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program, in partnership with the Navy submarine enterprise, has stated an intent to invest in the development of the necessary training and education programs of the industrial base, with the aim of creating sufficient capability to provide a "ready to work", high-skill workforce at the production levels needed to meet the nuclear submarine modernization requirements of the Navy.
Inserted: (b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
Inserted: (1) the Department of Defense should continue investment in the National Imperative for Industrial Skills Initiative; and
Inserted: (2) accelerate efforts to expand pilot programs under that Initiative as part of a broader push to set up networks of at-scale regional workforce training centers around the United States.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:
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SA 6409. Mr. WARNER 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 G of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1077. SENSE OF SENATE ON INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE OF DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE.
(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Global supply chain disruptions have become more common, with recent events highlighting risks and vulnerabilities that undermine the national security of the United States.
(2) The February 2022 report of the Department of Defense entitled “Securing Defense-Critical Supply Chains: An action plan developed in response to President Biden's Executive Order 14017” and the 2022 industrial capabilities report of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy each outline strategic focus areas and enabling capabilities, and associated vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations to strengthen the defense industrial base.
(3) The Department of Defense relies on a skilled workforce to innovate, produce, and sustain weapon systems.
(4) Decades of erosion across workforce development pipelines jeopardize and threaten the United States industrial base's ability to remain competitive.
(5) The Department of Defense has expressed that a focus area for investment in fiscal year 2023 will be efforts that continue to focus on recruitment, training, and placing skilled workers in support of defense priorities and in support of priority defense programs.
(6) The stated primary effort by the Department of Defense will be a major, multi-year, endeavor with the Navy, focused on ensuring the health and capacity of the submarine workforce of the Department of Defense.
(7) The Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program, in partnership with the Navy submarine enterprise, has stated an intent to invest in the development of the necessary training and education programs of the industrial base, with the aim of creating sufficient capability to provide a “ready to work”, high-skill workforce at the production levels needed to meet the nuclear submarine modernization requirements of the Navy.
(b) Sense of Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) the Department of Defense should continue investment in the National Imperative for Industrial Skills Initiative; and
(2) accelerate efforts to expand pilot programs under that Initiative as part of a broader push to set up networks of at-scale regional workforce training centers around the United States.
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Senate amendment submitted
September 29, 2022