S.Amdt. 6401

SA 6401. Mr. WELCH (for himself, Mr. Durbin, and Mr. Bennet)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S.
4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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:

In section 1224(a), strike paragraph (1) and insert the
following:
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Commerce, shall seek to engage with relevant stakeholders in
Ukraine to establish a United States-Ukraine Strategic
Defense Innovation Working Group (referred to in this section
as the ``Working Group'') to explore--
At the end of section 1224(d)(2)(B), add the following:
(viii) A description of non-regulatory opportunities to
fast-track agency processing procedures to accelerate export
of United States Munitions List-listed military explosives
and Commerce Control List-listed dual-use precursors,
manufacturing equipment, and components for production of
covered systems in Ukraine.
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