[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5394-S5395]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5925. Mr. TILLIS 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 XVI, insert the 
     following:

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     SEC. ___. REPORT ON TACTICAL SCALABLE MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK 
                   AND OTHER COMMERCIAL MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORKS.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a report on 
     the progress made in developing the Tactical Scalable Mobile 
     (TSM) ad-hoc network of the Army.
       (b) Contents.--The report submitted under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) A description of the efforts to improve the networking 
     function while on the move, data throughput, and ease of 
     integration with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and 
     Control (C-JADC2) of the Tactical Scalable Mobile network.
       (2) A description of the efforts to utilize the Tactical 
     Scalable Mobile network to consolidate the nationwide network 
     architecture in the exit from Afghanistan.
       (3) A description of how the Army provides off and on ramps 
     of technology to its capability sets.
       (4) Identification of any impediments that limit the 
     ability of the Army to consider other commercial-off-the-
     shelf mobile ad-hoc network technologies that have previously 
     been or are currently being assessed.
       (5) An assessment of other mobile ad-hoc network 
     capabilities in use today that are complimentary of existing 
     single channel ground and airborne radio systems and legacy, 
     disparate communications-based systems.
       (6) An assessment of the resilience of the Tactical 
     Scalable Mobile network and other mobile ad-hoc network 
     technologies against electronic attack.
       (7) An assessment of the current fleet of vehicles, 
     aircraft, and tactical operations centers not included in the 
     capability set aligned units that would benefit from non-
     developmental mobile ad-hoc networks.
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