[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 24, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1699. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2021 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 in title II, add the following:

     SEC. ___. ESTABLISHMENT OF ENERGETICS PROGRAM OFFICE.

       (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     establish an program office in the Department of the Navy to 
     coordinate innovative energetics research and to ensure a 
     robust and sustained energetics material enterprise.
       (b) Designation.--The program office established under 
     subsection (a) shall be known as the ``Energetics Program 
     Office''.
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