S.Amdt. 6592

SA 6592. Ms. ALSOBROOKS submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by her 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:

At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

SEC. 10__. NAVY-COAST GUARD MARITIME WORKFORCE AND CAPACITY
COORDINATION PLAN.

(a) Establishment.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy and
the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall establish a recurring
coordination mechanism to align maritime industrial workforce
requirements and capacity planning activities.
(b) Quarterly Coordination.--In carrying out subsection
(a), the Secretary of the Navy and the Commandant of the
Coast Guard shall convene meetings not less frequently than
once each quarter to--
(1) identify projected workforce requirements and capacity
needs associated with shipbuilding, ship repair, maintenance,
sustainment, and related maritime industrial activities;
(2) identify areas of overlap, competition, or resource
constraints that may adversely affect the ability of either
service to meet workforce and industrial base requirements;
(3) assess opportunities to coordinate workforce
development activities, training pipelines, and industrial
base investments; and
(4) identify actions necessary to reduce duplication and
improve coordination across shared industrial sectors.
(c) 10-year Maritime Workforce and Capacity Plan.--
(1) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, and every two years thereafter, the
Secretary of the Navy and the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report containing a 10-year maritime workforce
and capacity plan. Each such plan shall include, for the
period covered by the plan--
(A) projected workforce requirements across shipbuilding,
ship repair, maintenance, sustainment, and critical supplier
sectors;
(B) projected demand signals and anticipated requirements
for public and private shipyards and related industrial base
participants;
(C) an assessment of workforce gaps, shortages, and
associated risks to the execution of shipbuilding and
sustainment requirements;
(D) the identification of areas in which Navy and Coast
Guard requirements may create competing demands for labor,
infrastructure, or supplier capacity;
(E) recommendations for mitigating identified constraints
and improving coordination between the Navy and the Coast
Guard; and
(F) an assessment of actions necessary to provide industry
with greater predictability regarding future workforce and
capacity requirements.
(2) Briefing.--Not later than 30 days after the date on
which a report is submitted under paragraph (1), the
Secretary of the Navy and the Commandant of the Coast Guard
shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees a
briefing on the plan contained in the report.
(3) Appropriate congressional committees.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives.
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