S.Amdt. 237

SA 237. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 III, insert the
following:

SEC. 3__. USE OF IMMERSIVE LEARNING ACROSS TRAINING
ORGANIZATIONS AND MAJOR COMMANDS OF THE AIR
FORCE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Air Force shall fully
integrate and scale the use of immersive learning across
training organizations and major commands of the Air Force as
a program of record.
(b) Minimize Cost.--The Secretary of the Air Force shall
make efforts to minimize the cost of developing immersive
learning training required under subsection (a) by employing
software solutions that provide low-code and no-code
capabilities--
(1) to enable members of the Air Force to create, manage,
and sustain the curriculum going forward; and
(2) to enable instructors to record, edit, and adjust
courses without added scope or cost.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force shall
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives a report on the progress of the
Secretary in incorporating immersive learning platforms into
a new program of record to deliver a modernized training
capability to members of the Air Force.
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