[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4946-S4947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3177. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 H of title V, add the following:

     SEC. 586. FIREGUARD PROGRAM: PROGRAM OF RECORD; 
                   AUTHORIZATION.

       Section 510 of title 32, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The Secretary'';
       (B) by inserting ``of record'' after ``carry out a 
     program''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) The FireGuard Program is authorized through December 
     31, 2031.''.
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Annual Briefing.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 2026, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of 
     Representatives the first of five annual briefings regarding 
     the FireGuard Program. Such a briefing shall include, with 
     regards to the year preceding the date of the briefing, the 
     following elements:
       ``(1) The States (as such term is defined in section 901 of 
     this title), counties, municipalities, and Tribal governments 
     that received information under the FireGuard Program.
       ``(2) A comparative analysis of a map of--
       ``(A) each wildfire, initially provided to an entity 
     described in paragraph (1) through the FireGuard Program; and
       ``(B) the perimeter of such wildfire after containment.
       ``(3) An analysis of the time between the detection of a 
     fire via raw satellite data and alerts being sent to local 
     responders.

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       ``(4) A review of efforts undertaken to integrate emerging 
     satellite and aerial surveillance technologies from qualified 
     private, nonprofit, and public sector sources.''.
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