[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4997]
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  SA 2695. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 X, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON PORTABLE, DRONE-AGNOSTIC MUNITIONS.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military 
     departments, submit to the congressional defense committees a 
     report on the feasibility and cost of acquiring and fielding 
     portable, drone-agnostic droppable munitions.
       (b) Elements.--The report submitted pursuant to subsection 
     (a) shall address the following:
       (1) The potential use of portable, drone-agnostic droppable 
     munitions to augment small unit tactics and lethality in the 
     ground combat forces, including--
       (A) trench warfare;
       (B) countermine operations;
       (C) anti-armor uses; and
       (D) anti-personnel uses.
       (2) The capability for portable, drone-agnostic droppable 
     munitions to have a dual tactical capacity to explode in the 
     air or on impact.
       (3) The cost-effectiveness, affordability, and domestic 
     production capacity of portable, drone-agnostic droppable 
     munitions in comparison to one-way small uncrewed aerial 
     systems.
       (4) The use of portable, drone-agnostic droppable munitions 
     in the Ukraine conflict and best practices learned.
       (5) The potential use of portable, drone-agnostic droppable 
     munitions in the defense of Taiwan.
       (6) Procurement challenges, legal restrictions, training 
     shortfalls, operational limitations, or other impediments to 
     fielding portable, drone-agnostic droppable munitions at the 
     platoon level.
       (7) A plan to equip platoon-sized ground combat formations 
     in the close combat force with portable, drone-agnostic 
     droppable munitions at a basis of issue, as determined 
     appropriate by the Secretary of the military department 
     concerned, including a proposed timeline and fielding 
     strategy.
       (8) A plan to equip such other ground combat units with 
     portable, drone-agnostic droppable munitions, as determined 
     appropriate by the Secretary of the military department 
     concerned.
       (9) The capacity of the domestic defense industrial base to 
     produce portable, drone-agnostic droppable munitions.
       (10) The capacity of the industrial bases of foreign 
     partners to produce portable, drone-agnostic droppable 
     munitions.
       (11) The feasibility of fielding portable, drone-agnostic 
     droppable munitions in support of the findings of the report 
     required by section 1071 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 
     137 Stat. 407).S0634
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