[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5574-S5575]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6037. Mr. WICKER 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

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     SEC. 1077. ENHANCED COLLABORATION BETWEEN DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND 
                   UNIVERSITIES AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS 
                   OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

       (a) Partnerships Program.--
       (1) Plan.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees a plan for a program 
     to establish partnerships between historically black colleges 
     and universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions of 
     higher education (MSIs) and defense laboratories, Federal 
     defense agencies and organizations, the defense industry, 
     university affiliated research centers, federally funded 
     research and development centers, and other institutions of 
     higher education in research, development, testing, and 
     evaluation in areas important to the national security 
     functions of the Department of Defense.
       (2) Implementation.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     implement the program described in paragraph (1) by not later 
     than July 1, 2023.
       (b) HBCU/MSI Sponsored Programs Shared Services Center.--
     Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a plan to establish an HBCU/
     MSI Sponsored Programs Shared Services Center (SPSSC) to 
     provide Federal research and contract pursuit, capture, and 
     administration support to covered institutions. The SPSSC 
     shall be formed and managed by a commercial or academic 
     entity, or a consortium that includes commercial and academic 
     entities. The plans shall include a means to have the SPSSC 
     in operation by not later than July 1, 2023.
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