[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 7, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3557]
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  SA 4471. Mr. PETERS (for himself and Ms. Stabenow) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2943, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 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 I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. REPORT ON MILITARY TRAINING FOR OPERATIONS IN 
                   DENSELY POPULATED URBAN TERRAIN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than March 31, 2017, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees a report on plans and initiatives to 
     enhance existing urban training concepts, capabilities, and 
     facilities that could provide for new training opportunities 
     that would more closely resemble large, dense, heavily 
     populated urban environments. The report shall include 
     specific plans and efforts to provide for a realistic 
     environment for the training of large units with joint assets 
     and recently fielded technologies to exercise new tactics, 
     techniques, and procedures, including consideration of 
     anticipated urban military operations in or near the littoral 
     environment and maritime domain as well as the cyber domain.
       (b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) may be 
     submitted in classified or unclassified form.
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