[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5605-S5606]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6077. Mr. ROUNDS 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 D of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 357. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROCUREMENT OF TECHNOLOGY FOR 
                   WEAPONS SYSTEMS.

       It is the Sense of Congress that in order to begin to 
     improve the mission readiness of

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     the critical weapons systems of the United States and to 
     materially reduce costs associated with the maintenance of 
     those weapons systems, such sums as needed should be 
     appropriated for the procurement of technology that has been 
     validated to simultaneously monitor circuit paths under test 
     and continuously detect and isolate the precise location of 
     intermittent circuit failures in durations as short as 100 
     nanoseconds.
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