[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5040]
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  SA 2778. Mr. BROWN 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 II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REPORT ON INFECTIOUS AGENT BIOMANUFACTURING FOR 
                   PANDEMIC AND MILITARY READINESS.

       Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
     Engineering shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a report on--
       (1) the value of the Department partnering with a nonprofit 
     to biomanufacture infectious agents and reagents necessary 
     for warfighter health efforts; and
       (2) how best to acquire and manufacture biomaterials to 
     support the Department's development of medical 
     countermeasures for biological threats.
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