S.Amdt. 2737

SA 2737. Mr. CRUZ 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 in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. VEHICLE INTEGRATION AND TESTING OF 3GEN FLIR ON
ABRAMS TANK.

(a) Additional Amount.--The amount authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2025 by section 201 for
research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby
increased by $7,300,000, with the amount of the increase to
be available for vehicle integration and testing of the 3GEN
FLIR on the current model Abrams tank.
(b) Briefing.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall
provide the congressional defense committees a briefing on
the 3GEN FLIR program.
(2) Matters covered.--The briefing provided pursuant to
paragraph (1) shall cover the following:
(A) The effect of the combat vehicle modernization strategy
of the Army on the 3GEN FLIR program and the industrial base.
(B) An assessment of efforts and resources needed to
integrate the 3GEN FLIR onto the SEP Version 3 main battle
tank.
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