[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 135 (Wednesday, August 15, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3698. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department of 
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A, 
     insert the following:
       Sec. ___.  Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall, 
     acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
     Research, Development, and Acquisition, submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on current 
     investments of the Navy in research on energetics. The report 
     shall include the following:
       (1) A comparison between current Navy investments in 
     research on energetics and current investments of the other 
     military departments in such research.
       (2) A comparison between current Navy investments in 
     research on energtics and current investments in such 
     research by the naval ministries of each of the People's 
     Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the 
     Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the Russian 
     Federation.
       (3) Recommendations for the most appropriate investments, 
     and amounts of investments, by the Navy in research on 
     energetics in the future.

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