[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 123 (Monday, July 29, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5555]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3188. 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 end of subtitle A of title XV, add the following:

     SEC. 1510. BRIEFING ON OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE EDUCATIONAL 
                   PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF 
                   TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE 
                   ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) In General.--Not later than July 30, 2025, the 
     Secretary of the Air Force, in coordination with the 
     Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, shall provide to appropriate committees of 
     Congress a briefing on a path forward to increase 
     opportunities to advance educational partnerships between the 
     Air Force Institute of Technology and the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration.
       (b) Element.--The briefing required by subsection (a) shall 
     include specific recommendations for the Air Force Institute 
     of Technology and the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration to establish more formal relations that will 
     lead to more National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
     employees enrolling in Air Force Institute of Technology 
     course offerings and add synergist gains in cross-over work 
     projects.
       (c) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Science, Space, and Technology of the House of 
     Representatives.
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