S.Amdt. 2198

SA 2198. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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, insert the following:

SEC. ___. RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES AT
HBCUS AND OTHER MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS.

Section 4144 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as subsections
(f) and (g), respectively; and
(2) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following:
``(d) Incentives.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop
incentives to encourage research and educational
collaborations between covered educational institutions and
other institutions of higher education.
``(e) Requirements for UARCs and FFRDCs.--(1) Each
federally funded research and development center and
University Affiliated Research Center that receives funds
from the Department of Defense in a fiscal year, shall
allocate the applicable percentage (as described in paragraph
(2)) of the total amount of funds received from the
Department in such fiscal year to support research activities
(which may include activities described in subsection (c))
conducted in partnership with covered educational
institutions that have less than $151,000,000 in federal
grants and contract revenue.
``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the applicable
percentage is--
``(A) for fiscal year 2025, not less than 2 percent;
``(B) for fiscal year 2026, not less than 4 percent;
``(C) for fiscal year 2027, not less than 6 percent;
``(D) for fiscal year 2028, not less than 8 percent; and
``(E) for fiscal year 2029 and each fiscal year thereafter,
not less than 10 percent.
``(3) On an annual basis, each federally funded research
and development center and

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University Affiliated Research Center subject to the
requirements of paragraph (1) shall submit to the Secretary
of Defense and the congressional defense committees a report
on--
``(A) the amount of funds made available covered
educational institutions under such paragraph; and
``(B) the activities carried out with such funds.''.
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