To require a plan to modernize the nuclear security enterprise.

SA 3405. Mr. CORNYN 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 subtitle C of title XXXI,
insert the following:

SEC. 31___. PLAN TO MODERNIZE NUCLEAR SECURITY ENTERPRISE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear
Security shall develop a plan--

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(1) to accelerate and modernize Material Staging
Capabilities to replace aged, over-subscribed facilities
within the nuclear security enterprise, which shall include a
description of all phases and an estimate of the costs
required to carry out such plan; and
(2) to accelerate near-term Critical Decisions milestones
in fiscal year 2026.
(b) Execution.--The Administrator for Nuclear Security
shall carry out the plan required by subsection (a)
concurrently with an infrastructure modernization program for
high explosives capabilities, including continued
construction of the High Explosives Synthesis Formulation and
Production facility (21-D-510).
(c) Briefings.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear
Security shall brief the appropriate congressional committees
on the Material Staging Capabilities plan required by
subsection (a).
(2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriated congressional
committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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