S.Amdt. 683

SA 683. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) 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 subtitle C of title II, insert
the following:

SEC. ___. ESTABLISHMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION PROGRAM FOR
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENCE.

(a) In General.--The Commander of Air Force Global Strike
Command shall, through the use of a partnership intermediary,
use any funds appropriated pursuant to the materials
submitted under subsection (b), or otherwise made available
to the Air Force, to establish a program--
(1) to carry out technology transition, digital engineering
projects, and other innovation activities supporting the Air
Force nuclear enterprise; and
(2) to discover capabilities that have the potential to
generate life-cycle cost savings and provide data-driven
approaches to resource allocation.
(b) Inclusion of Program Element in Future Budget
Materials.--In the materials submitted to by the Secretary of
the Air Force in support of the budget of the President
submitted for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year
thereafter under section 1105 of title 31, United States
Code, the Secretary shall include a program element dedicated
to the program described in subsection (a).
(c) Termination.--The program established under subsection
(a) shall terminate on September 30, 2029.
(d) Partnership Intermediary Defined.--The term
``partnership intermediary'' has the meaning given the term
in section 23(c) of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology
Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3715(c)).
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