[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4574]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 652. Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Ms. Hirono) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. REQUIREMENT TO ESTABLISH REPOSITORY FOR OPERATIONAL 
                   ENERGY-RELATED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS 
                   OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Repository Required.--Not later than December 31, 2018, 
     the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Assistant 
     Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and in 
     collaboration with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
     Operational Energy Plans and Programs and the Secretaries of 
     the military departments, shall establish a centralized 
     repository for all operational energy-related research and 
     development efforts of the Department of Defense, including 
     with respect to the inception, operational, and complete 
     phases of such efforts.
       (b) Internet Access.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure 
     that the repository required by subsection (a) is accessible 
     through an Internet website of the Department of Defense and 
     by all employees of the Department and members of the Armed 
     Forces whom the Secretary determines appropriate, including 
     all program managers involved in such research and 
     development efforts, to enable improved collaboration between 
     military departments on research and development efforts 
     described in subsection (a), enable sharing of best practices 
     and lessons learned relating to such efforts, and reduce 
     redundancy in such efforts.
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