S.Amdt. 3177

SA 3177. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 end of subtitle H of title V, add the following:

SEC. 586. FIREGUARD PROGRAM: PROGRAM OF RECORD;
AUTHORIZATION.

Section 510 of title 32, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary'';
(B) by inserting ``of record'' after ``carry out a
program''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) The FireGuard Program is authorized through December
31, 2031.''.
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(c) Annual Briefing.--Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the Secretary shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of
Representatives the first of five annual briefings regarding
the FireGuard Program. Such a briefing shall include, with
regards to the year preceding the date of the briefing, the
following elements:
``(1) The States (as such term is defined in section 901 of
this title), counties, municipalities, and Tribal governments
that received information under the FireGuard Program.
``(2) A comparative analysis of a map of--
``(A) each wildfire, initially provided to an entity
described in paragraph (1) through the FireGuard Program; and
``(B) the perimeter of such wildfire after containment.
``(3) An analysis of the time between the detection of a
fire via raw satellite data and alerts being sent to local
responders.

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``(4) A review of efforts undertaken to integrate emerging
satellite and aerial surveillance technologies from qualified
private, nonprofit, and public sector sources.''.
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