[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3721-S3722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2778. Mr. DURBIN (for Ms. Duckworth) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 
(for himself and Mr. McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

       Beginning on page 48, strike line 10 and all that follows 
     through page 49, line 6, and insert the following:
       (1) A process for streamlined communications between the 
     Under Secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the commanders of 
     the combatant commands, the science and technology executives 
     within each military department, the science and technology 
     community, and the manufacturing industrial base, including--
       (A) a process for the commanders of the combatant commands 
     and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to communicate their needs to 
     the science and technology community and the centers for 
     manufacturing innovation that comprise the Network for 
     Manufacturing Innovation; and
       (B) a process for the science and technology community and 
     such centers to propose technologies that meet the needs 
     communicated by the combatant commands and the Joint Chiefs 
     of Staff.
       (2) Procedures for the development of technologies proposed 
     pursuant to paragraph (1)(B), including--
       (A) a process for demonstrating performance of the proposed 
     technologies on a short timeline;
       (B) a process for accelerating, transitioning, and 
     integrating new manufacturing technologies and processes 
     developed by the centers described in paragraph (1)(A);

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