[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6006. Mr. LEE 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. ___. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CONSIDERATION OF POWERED 
                   EXOSKELETONS AND HUMAN CONTROLLED ROBOTS FOR 
                   HEAVY LIFT SUSTAINMENT TASKS.

       Whenever the Secretary of Defense evaluates the research 
     and development of emerging war-fighting technologies, the 
     Secretary shall consider the use of full-body, autonomously 
     powered exoskeletons and semi-autonomous or tele-operated 
     single or dual-armed, human controlled robots used for heavy 
     lift sustainment tasks.
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