[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5691-S5692]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6149. Mr. KELLY 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

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     SEC. 848. REQUIREMENT TO BUY CERTAIN SATELLITE COMPONENT FROM 
                   NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL BASE.

       (a) In General.--Section 4864(a) of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(6) Traveling-wave tube and traveling wave tube 
     amplifiers.--A traveling-wave tube and traveling-wave tube 
     amplifier, that meets established technical and reliability 
     requirements, used in a satellite weighing more than 400 
     pounds whose principle purpose is to support the national 
     security, defense, or intelligence needs of the United States 
     Government.''.
       (b) Exception.--Paragraph (6) of section 4864(a) of title 
     10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall not 
     apply with respect to programs that received Milestone A 
     approval (as defined in section 2431a of such title) before 
     October 1, 2021.
       (c) Clarification of Delegation Authority.--Subject to 
     subsection (i) of section 4864 of title 10, United States 
     Code, the Secretary of Defense may delegate to a service 
     acquisition executive the authority to make a waiver under 
     subsection (d) of such section with respect to the limitation 
     under subsection (a)(6) of such section, as added by 
     subsection (a) of this section.
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