[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4585. Mr. MANCHIN 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 XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3157. UNIVERSITY-BASED NUCLEAR POLICY COLLABORATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Title XLIII of the Atomic Energy Defense 
     Act (50 U.S.C. 2565 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:

     ``SEC. 4312. UNIVERSITY-BASED NUCLEAR POLICY COLLABORATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       ``(a) Program.--The Administrator shall carry out a program 
     under which the Administrator establishes a policy research 
     consortium of institutions of higher education and nonprofit 
     entities in support of implementing and innovating the 
     defense nuclear policy programs of the Administration. The 
     Administrator shall establish and carry out such program in a 
     manner similar to the program established under section 4814.
       ``(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the consortium established 
     under subsection (a) are as follows:
       ``(1) To shape the formulation and application of policy 
     through the conduct of research and analysis regarding 
     defense nuclear policy programs.
       ``(2) To maintain open-source databases on issues relevant 
     to understanding defense nuclear nonproliferation, arms 
     control, nuclear deterrence, foreign nuclear programs, and 
     nuclear security.
       ``(3) To facilitate the collaboration of research centers 
     of excellence relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation to 
     better distribute expertise to specific issues and scenarios 
     regarding such threats.
       ``(c) Duties.--
       ``(1) Support.--The Administrator shall ensure that the 
     consortium established under subsection (a) provides support 
     to individuals described in paragraph (2) through the use of 
     nongovernmental fellowships, scholarships, research 
     internships, workshops, short courses, summer schools, and 
     research grants.
       ``(2) Individuals described.--Individuals described in this 
     paragraph are graduate students, academics, and policy 
     specialists, who are focused on policy innovation related 
     to--
       ``(A) defense nuclear nonproliferation;
       ``(B) arms control;
       ``(C) nuclear deterrence;
       ``(D) the study of foreign nuclear programs;
       ``(E) nuclear security; or
       ``(F) educating and training the next generation of defense 
     nuclear policy experts.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the 
     Atomic Energy Defense Act is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 4311 the following new item:

``Sec. 4312. University-based nuclear policy collaboration program.''.
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