S.Amdt. 2778

SA 2778. Mr. BROWN 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. ___. REPORT ON INFECTIOUS AGENT BIOMANUFACTURING FOR
PANDEMIC AND MILITARY READINESS.

Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on--
(1) the value of the Department partnering with a nonprofit
to biomanufacture infectious agents and reagents necessary
for warfighter health efforts; and
(2) how best to acquire and manufacture biomaterials to
support the Department's development of medical
countermeasures for biological threats.
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