S.Amdt. 2229

SA 2229. Mr. HAWLEY 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:

On page 727, strike lines 22 through 24 and insert the
following:
``(3) A list of equipment and supplies, which shall be
limited to materials relating to asymmetric defense
capabilities or a denial defense, and estimated quantities of
such equipment and supplies, required for such stockpile.''.
On page 728, strike lines 6 through 14 and insert the
following:
``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
`appropriate committees of Congress' means--
``(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate; and
``(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House of Representatives.
``(2) Asymmetric defense capabilities.--The term
`asymmetric defense capabilities' includes, in such
quantities as the Secretary of Defense determines to be
necessary to achieve the purpose specified, the following:
``(A) Mobile, ground-based coastal defense cruise missiles
and launchers.
``(B) Mobile, ground-based short-range and medium-range air
defense systems.
``(C) Smart, self-propelled naval mines and coastal
minelaying platforms.
``(D) Missile boats and fast-attack craft equipped with
anti-ship and anti-landing craft missiles.
``(E) Unmanned aerial and other mobile, resilient
surveillance systems to support coastal and air defense
operations.
``(F) Equipment to support target location, tracking,
identification, and targeting, especially at the local level,
in communications degraded or denied environments.
``(G) Man-portable anti-armor weapons, mortars, and small
arms for ground combat operations.
``(H) Equipment and technical assistance for the purpose of
developing civil defense forces, composed of civilian
volunteers and militia.
``(I) Training and equipment, including appropriate war
reserves, required for Taiwan forces to independently
maintain, sustain, and employ capabilities described in
subparagraphs (A) through (H).
``(J) Concept development for coastal defense, air defense,
decentralized command and control, civil defense, logistics,
planning, and other critical military functions, with an
emphasis on operations in a communications degraded or denied
environment.''.
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