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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6001. Mr. BENNET (for himself and Mr. Hickenlooper) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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 title X, add the following:
SEC. 1094. REPORT ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY IMPORTANCE OF THE
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH.
(a) Findings.—Congress finds the following:
(1) Extreme weather, geomagnetic storms, and atmospheric
variability pose severe, difficult to predict threats to
Department of Defense installations, global military
logistics, and troop readiness.
(2) The National Center for Atmospheric Research (referred
to in this section as “NCAR”) serves as a critical national
security asset by providing advanced atmospheric modeling,
space weather forecasting, and supercomputing capabilities
that are directly utilized by the Air Force Weather Agency,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
intelligence community, the Naval Meteorology and
Oceanography Command, and the 45th Weather Squadron of the
Space Force.
(3) NCAR's flagship infrastructure, including the Mesa
Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and the NCAR-Wyoming
Supercomputing Center, provides the foundational
computational physics necessary to simulate complex
battlefield environments, ensure satellite communications
integrity, and protect domestic defense infrastructure.
(4) Fragmentation, divestment, or arbitrary, politically-
motivated structural changes to NCAR's unified facilities
would create critical gaps in United States weather
intelligence, directly undermining the tactical advantages of
the Armed Forces.
(b) Report.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Administrator of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report assessing the
Department of Defense's reliance on the capabilities of NCAR.
(c) Elements.—The report required under subsection (b)
shall include the following:
(1) An evaluation of how Department of Defense predictive
weather models and space weather forecasting rely on NCAR-
developed community models and supercomputing infrastructure.
(2) An evaluation of the impact of NCAR-developed
environmental intelligence and forecasting infrastructure on
tactical troop safety, including an assessment of how the
degradation or disruption of such infrastructure could
increase risks to service members during—
(A) live-fire training exercises, munitions-handling, and
fueling operations;
(B) high-altitude aviation and low-altitude helicopter
operations in degraded visual environments; and
(C) deployments in areas subject to extreme weather, severe
turbulence, or microburst wind shear.
(3) A risk assessment of the potential impacts on military
installations, aviation safety, and naval operations if NCAR
facilities, including the Mesa Laboratory and the NCAR-
Wyoming Supercomputing Center, face structural divestment,
fragmentation, or closure.
(4) A description of any specialized research aircraft or
observational platforms operated by NCAR that support
Department of Defense test and evaluation missions.
(d) Form.—The report required by subsection (b) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.