S.Amdt. 2608

SA 2608. Mr. CORNYN 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. ___. DIGITAL ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into a
contract or other agreement with a federally funded research
and development center or a university-affiliated research
center to conduct an assessment of the implementation by the
Department of Defense of digital engineering and modeling for
electronics systems.
(b) Elements.--The assessment required under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) The results and lessons learned from the pilot projects
conducted by each of the military department as of the date
of the enactment of this Act, including any cost and schedule
impacts realized by incorporating digital electronic systems
engineering and digital twinning.
(2) The resources and timelines required for the
development, execution, and sustainment of digital electronic
systems engineering to develop hardware accurate digital
twins of the electronic systems associated with each current
major defense acquisition program.
(3) The resources and timelines required to expand the use
of digital electronic systems engineering to programs other
than the major defense acquisition programs.
(4) The workforce development and education requirements to
support adoption of digital electronic systems engineering
and digital twinning.
(5) Recommendations for how to programmatically implement
and manage such a digital electronics systems engineering and
digital twinning capability to ensure cost efficiency and
sufficient capacity to satisfy the digital electronic systems
engineering demands for each of the military departments.
(c) Results.--
(1) In general.--Following the completion of the assessment
under subsection (a), the federally funded research and
development center or university-affiliated research center
shall submit to the Secretary a report on the results of the
assessment.
(2) Form.--The report submitted pursuant to paragraph (1)
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a
classified annex.
(d) Submittal to Congress.--Not later than 60 days after
the date the Secretary receives the report under subsection
(c), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense
committees an unaltered copy of the report along with any
comments the Secretary may have with respect to the report.
(e) Definition of Major Defense Acquisition Program.--In
this section, the term ``major defense acquisition program''
has the meaning given that term in section 4201 of title 10,
United States Code.
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