[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 127 (Monday, July 20, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2471. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Kaine) 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:

       At the end of subtitle A of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 815. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATIONAL IMPERATIVE FOR 
                   INDUSTRIAL SKILLS PROGRAM.

       (a) Authority.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall carry out 
     and accelerate the Department of Defense National Imperative 
     for Industrial Skills Program within the Industrial Base 
     Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Office to evaluate and 
     further develop workforce development training programs for 
     training the skilled industrial workers needed in the defense 
     industrial base.
       (2) Priorities.--In carrying out the program, the Secretary 
     shall prioritize--
       (A) innovative training programs that can rapidly train 
     skilled workers for placement in the defense industrial base 
     faster than traditional training programs and at the scale 
     needed to measurably reduce, as rapidly as possible, the 
     manpower shortages that currently exist; and
       (B) training programs that can address the specific 
     manufacturing requirements and skills that are unique to 
     critical industrial sectors of the defense industrial base, 
     such as naval shipbuilding.
       (b) Funding.--
       (1) Authorization of appropriations.--The amount authorized 
     to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal 
     year 2021 for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, 
     Defense-wide and available for Industrial Base Analysis and 
     Sustainment Support is increased by $7,500,000, with the 
     amount of such increase to be available for pilot projects 
     carried out pursuant to subsection (a).
       (2) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2021 for Operation 
     and Maintenance, Army and available for SAG 421 Servicewide 
     Transportation is reduced by $7,500,000.
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