S.Amdt. 861

SA 861. Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Ms. Rosen)
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:

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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 may, through the use of a partnership intermediary,
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) Termination.--The program established under subsection
(a) shall terminate on September 30, 2029.
(c) 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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