S.Amdt. 3238

SA 3238. 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. 2__. HACKING FOR DEFENSE.

The amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year
2026 by section 201 for research, development, test, and
evaluation is hereby increased by $10,000,000, with the
amount of the increase to be available for the Defense
Innovation Unit (PE 0603342D8Z) for Hacking for Defense.
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