[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3402]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 312. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. ___. ENERGETICS PLAN.

       The Secretary of the Navy shall, working with the technical 
     directors at the Naval Surface Warfare Centers, develop an 
     energetics research and development plan to ensure a long-
     term multi-domain research, development, prototyping, and 
     experimentation effort that--
       (1) improves the lethality, range, and speed of energetic 
     weapons;
       (2) advances the development of high yield conventional 
     energetics capabilities; and
       (3) increases the size of the national energetic workforce.
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