[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7743]
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  SA 4243. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1253. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON 
                   USE OF GRAY-ZONE TACTICS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC 
                   MARITIME DOMAIN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall 
     establish a joint interagency task force to assess, respond 
     to, and coordinate with United States allies and partners in 
     response to the use of gray-zone tactics by state and 
     nonstate actors in the Indo-Pacific maritime domain.
       (b) Activities.--The task force established under 
     subsection (a) shall--
       (1) conduct domain awareness operations, intelligence 
     fusion, and multi-sensor correlation to detect, monitor, 
     disrupt, and deter suspected gray-zone activities;
       (2) promote security cooperation and capacity building to 
     respond to, disrupt, and deter gray-zone activities; and
       (3) coordinate United States and partner country 
     initiatives, including across diplomatic, political, 
     economic, and military domains, to counter the use of gray-
     zone tactics by adversaries.
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