S.Amdt. 3344

SA 3344. Mr. CURTIS 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 D of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2850. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CRITICAL ROLE OF DUGWAY
PROVING GROUND, UTAH, IN NATIONAL DEFENSE.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, plays a vital role in
national security as the premier facility of the Department
of Defense for chemical, biological, radiological, and
nuclear defense testing and countermeasures development;
(2) the unique geographic isolation and specialized
infrastructure of Dugway Proving Ground make it an
irreplaceable asset for the safe and controlled testing of
advanced defense capabilities, including biodefense, unmanned
systems, electronic warfare, and emerging threat mitigation
technologies;
(3) modernizing and sustaining Dugway Proving Ground is
essential to ensure its continued ability to support the
readiness of the Armed Forces, including its role in the
development and validation of next-generation protective
measures, decontamination protocols, and live-agent testing
of defense technologies;
(4) investing in infrastructure and research capabilities
at Dugway Proving Ground is necessary to maintain the
strategic superiority of the United States in chemical,
biological, radiological, and nuclear defense and ensure that
warfighters are equipped with the most advanced protective
systems; and
(5) the status of Dugway Proving Ground as the leading test
facility for biological and chemical defense preparedness in
the United States should be preserved, ensuring that the
Armed Forces can operate safely in complex threat
environments.
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