[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4070]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2370. Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself, Mr. Thune, Mr. Gardner, Mr. 
Cramer, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Lee) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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:

        In section 212, strike subsection (c) and insert the 
     following:
       (c) Cross-functional Team for Fifth-generation Wireless 
     Networking.--
       (1) Establishment required.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall, in accordance with section 911(c) of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 
     114-328; 10 U.S.C. 111 note), establish a cross-functional 
     team for fifth-generation wireless networking in order--
       (A) to advance the adoption of commercially available next 
     generation wireless communication technologies, capabilities, 
     security, and applications by the Department of Defense and 
     the defense industrial base; and
       (B) to support public-private partnership between the 
     Department and industry regarding fifth-generation wireless 
     networking.
       (2) Purpose.--The purpose of the cross-functional team 
     established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be the--
       (A) oversight of the implementation of the strategy 
     developed as required by section 254 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (Public Law 116-92) 
     for harnessing fifth-generation wireless networking 
     technologies, coordinated across all relevant elements of the 
     Department;
       (B) coordination of research and development, 
     implementation and acquisition activities, warfighting 
     concept development, spectrum policy, industrial policy and 
     commercial outreach and partnership relating to fifth-
     generation wireless networking in the Department, and 
     interagency and international engagement;
       (C) integration of the Department's fifth-generation 
     wireless networking programs and policies with major 
     Department initiatives, programs, and policies surrounding 
     secure microelectronics and command and control; and
       (D) oversight, coordination, execution, and leadership of 
     initiatives to advance fifth-generation wireless network 
     technologies and associated applications developed for the 
     Department.
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