[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5321-S5322]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5840. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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. ___. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT FOR F-35 C2D2.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--In is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office is 
     investigating the expanded use of commercial digital 
     microelectronics engineering practices to enable affordably 
     sustainable and agilely modernizable systems;
       (2) the effort of the recent Joint Strike Fighter Digital 
     Microelectronics Engineering pilot project which showed a 
     significant reduction in risk to flight test while providing 
     100 percent coverage and requirements traceability within the 
     verification test plan is to be commended;

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       (3) the move from manual data collection and analysis to 
     21st century commercial, advanced verification methodologies 
     is long overdue; and
       (4) the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office and the Service 
     Joint Strike Fighter Transition Program Offices should apply 
     commercial digital microelectronics engineering best 
     practices, to be executed exclusively by companies accredited 
     by the Department of Defense as trusted suppliers, to all 
     future Joint Strike Fighter acquisition, sustainment, 
     modernization, and diminishing manufacturing sources and 
     materials shortages (DMSMS) efforts to achieve improved life-
     cycle-costs and capability delivery.
       (b) Additional Amount.--The amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2023 by section 201 for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby 
     increased by $20,000,000, with the amount of the increase to 
     be available for F-35 C2D2 (PE 0604840F).
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