S.Amdt. 3546

SA 3546. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 724. PILOT PROGRAM TO TEST STANDALONE TECHNOLOGY TO
IMPROVE EFFICIENCIES IN SUPPLY-CHAIN
MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL READINESS, AND MEDICAL
PROCESSES.

(a) Establishment.--Not later than 90 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense,
acting through the Director of the Defense Health Agency,
shall carry out a pilot program to test and evaluate existing
standalone technologies to assess whether such technologies
accomplish the following:
(1) Improving efficiencies in medical supply-chain
management and in military medical readiness.
(2) Streamlining medical processes.
(3) Improving recordation accuracy.
(4) Reducing rates of needlestick injury.
(5) Enhancing retention rates of health care providers of
the Department of Defense.
(b) Duration.--The Secretary shall carry out the pilot
program under subsection (a) for a five-year period.
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