[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8108-S8109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4595. Mr. BROWN (for himself and Mr. Portman) 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 appropriate place in title II , insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 220. IDENTIFICATION OF THE HYPERSONICS FACILITIES AND 
                   CAPABILITIES OF THE MAJOR RANGE AND TEST 
                   FACILITY BASE.

       (a) Identification Required.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall--
       (1) identify each facility and capability of the Major 
     Range and Test Facility Base that is primarily concerned with 
     the ground-based simulation of hypersonic atmospheric flight 
     conditions and the test and evaluation of hypersonic 
     technology in open air flight;
       (2) identify such facilities and capabilities that the 
     Secretary would propose to designate, collectively, as the 
     ``Hypersonics Facility Base''; and
       (3) identify facilities and capabilities within the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct 
     research, development, test, evaluation and acceptance of 
     hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems that the Secretary 
     would propose to use for the most efficient and effective 
     utilization of limited national aerospace test resources.
       (b) Major Range and Test Facility Base Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``Major

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     Range and Test Facility Base'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 196(i) of title 10, United States Code.
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