[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 614. Mr. SULLIVAN 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 F of title XII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 1272. REPORT ON ARCTIC CAPABILITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, 
     in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
     shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     report on the Arctic capabilities of the Armed forces.
       (b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) A comparison of the capabilities of the United States, 
     the Russian Federation, the People's Republic of China, and 
     other countries operating in the Arctic, including an 
     assessment of the ability of the navy of each such country to 
     operate in varying sea-ice conditions.
       (2) A description of commercial and foreign military 
     surface forces currently operating in the Arctic in 
     conditions inaccessible to Navy surface forces.
       (3) An assessment of the potential security risk posed to 
     the Armed Forces (other than the Army, Navy, Air Force, and 
     Marine Corps) by military forces of other countries operating 
     in the Arctic in conditions inaccessible to Navy surface or 
     aviation forces in the manner such forces currently operate.
       (4) A comparison of--
       (A) current Armed Forces (other than the Army, Navy, Air 
     Force, and Marine Corps) domain awareness capabilities in the 
     Arctic; and
       (B) the effects of supplementing United States capabilities 
     described in subparagraph (A) with Navy surface and aviation 
     forces and the surface and aviation forces of other allies.
       (5) A comparison of--
       (A) the current defensive capabilities of the Armed Forces 
     (other than the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps) in 
     the Arctic; and
       (B) the defensive capabilities of the Armed Forces (other 
     than the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps) in the 
     Arctic in mutual defense with the military forces of allies.
       (c) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) shall 
     be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a 
     classified annex.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term 
     ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
       (A) the congressional defense committees; and
       (B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
     of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and 
     Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Armed forces.--The term ``Armed Forces'' has the 
     meaning given the term ``armed forces'' in section 101(a) of 
     title 10, United States Code.
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