[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 25, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3539-S3540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1033. Mrs. FEINSTEIN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2024 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. 2__. BRIEFING ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE LABORATORY 
                   INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIZATION.

       (a) Briefing Required.--Not later than February 1, 2024, 
     the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
     shall provide the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
     and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives a briefing assessing the feasibility, merits, 
     and potential impediments for modernizing Department of 
     Defense laboratory infrastructure.
       (b) Elements.--The briefing provided pursuant to subsection 
     (a) shall include the following:
       (1) Identification and discussion of possible new 
     mechanisms to support modernization of Department 
     laboratories, such as consideration of enhanced use leases, 
     innovative financing mechanisms, or other public-private 
     partnership arrangements to provide modernized laboratory 
     capabilities on or near facilities of the Department.
       (2) Identification of promising commercial or academic 
     infrastructure, services, and technology that might 
     facilitate an infrastructure-as-a-service business model.
       (3) Discussion of how each mechanism identified under 
     paragraph (1) might affect the sustainment cost of research 
     facilities of the Department, as well as the ability to

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     execute the research and development mission of the 
     Department.
       (4) Identification of potential impediments to the 
     utilization of each mechanism identified under paragraph (1).
       (5) Such other matters as the Under Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
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