S.Amdt. 1033

SA 1033. Mrs. FEINSTEIN submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2024 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. 2__. BRIEFING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE LABORATORY
INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION.

(a) Briefing Required.--Not later than February 1, 2024,
the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
shall provide the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate
and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives a briefing assessing the feasibility, merits,
and potential impediments for modernizing Department of
Defense laboratory infrastructure.
(b) Elements.--The briefing provided pursuant to subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) Identification and discussion of possible new
mechanisms to support modernization of Department
laboratories, such as consideration of enhanced use leases,
innovative financing mechanisms, or other public-private
partnership arrangements to provide modernized laboratory
capabilities on or near facilities of the Department.
(2) Identification of promising commercial or academic
infrastructure, services, and technology that might
facilitate an infrastructure-as-a-service business model.
(3) Discussion of how each mechanism identified under
paragraph (1) might affect the sustainment cost of research
facilities of the Department, as well as the ability to

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execute the research and development mission of the
Department.
(4) Identification of potential impediments to the
utilization of each mechanism identified under paragraph (1).
(5) Such other matters as the Under Secretary considers
appropriate.
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