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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6184. Mr. WARNOCK 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:
SEC. . COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO BUILD PIPELINE OF
QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND
MATHEMATICS WORKFORCE.
(a) Comprehensive Program Required.—The Secretary of
Defense shall, acting through an Under Secretary of Defense
whom the Secretary shall designate for purposes of this
section, carry out a comprehensive program to build a
pipeline of United States individuals with science,
technology, engineering, or mathematics qualifications to
fill job vacancies within the Department of Defense in
shipbuilding, aerospace, computer science, cybersecurity, and
such other fields as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(b) SMART Program Increase.—In carrying out the program
required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall increase the
number of Science, Mathematics, and Research for
Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program
participants that are funded by the Department of Defense to
10,000.
(c) Use of ROTC.—The Secretary shall draw from the Reserve
Officer Training Corps who are pursuing programs of education
in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics for the
pipeline built under subsection (a).
(d) Partnerships.—In carrying out the subsection (a), the
Secretary shall establish partnerships between Department of
Defense laboratories and the colleges and universities of the
United States, including community colleges, women's
colleges, and historically Black colleges or universities.
(e) Apprenticeships and Internship Programs.—In carrying
out subsection (a), the Secretary shall enhance
apprenticeship and internship programs so that the
participants in such programs are ready to serve in the Armed
Forces on their first day of service in the Armed Forces,
regardless of academic institution from which they
matriculate.
(f) Diversification of Qualifications.—The Secretary shall
ensure that the pipeline built under the comprehensive
program required by subsection (a) encompasses more than just
inviduals pursuing programs of education leading to a degree,
but also individuals pursuing programs of education other
than programs of education leading to a degree, such as
programs of education leading to technical certificates, and
programs of education leading to a postgraduate degree.