S.Amdt. 6725

SA 6725. Mr. HUSTED 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:

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

SEC. __. BRIEFING AND SUMMARY ADDRESSING HIGH-PRESSURE, HIGH-
TEMPERATURE SYNTHETIC DIAMOND AND CUBIC BORON
NITRIDE.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency shall
provide a briefing and written summary to the congressional
defense committees addressing--
(1) whether high-pressure, high-temperature synthetic
diamond and cubic boron nitride should be--
(A) designated as strategic and critical materials for
stockpile purposes; and
(B) addressed in the next biennial stockpile requirements
report of the Department of Defense submitted to Congress;
and
(2) the extent and sufficiency of existing domestic
production capability, including surge and reactivation
potential, relative to identified shortfalls.
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