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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6295. Mr. VAN HOLLEN 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 subtitle D of title XXVIII, add the
following:
SEC. 2873. REPORT ON DETECTION AND ALERT SYSTEMS FOR SEVERE
WEATHER THREATS AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.
(a) Purpose.—The purpose of this section is to require
that, as part of military installations resilience planning,
the Secretary of Defense and the commander of any major
military installation study the benefits of investing in more
comprehensive, sustained severe weather, wildfire, and flood
detection and early warning, forecasting, and alerting
systems to improve preparedness, reduce risk to personnel and
property, and strengthen installation and mission resiliency.
(b) Report on Detention and Alert Systems at Military
Installations.—
(1) In general.— Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives a report that assesses the
detection, warning, forecasting, and alert systems for severe
weather threats at certain military installations.
(2) Contents.—The report submitted under paragraph (1)
shall—
(A) identify at-risk installations, including any
installation that—
(i) faces multi-hazard risks, such as concurrent elevated
risk of severe weather, lightning, wildfire, and flooding;
(ii) hosts critical mission capabilities, high-value
infrastructure, or population concentrations the loss of
which would have a disproportionate impact on national
security;
(iii) has a demonstrated historic or modeled vulnerability
to severe weather, wildfire, or flood events; or
(iv) would benefit most from near-term enhancements to
lifesaving alerting and collaborative incident management;
(B) assess the technical requirements and desired core
capabilities of detection, warning, forecasting, and alert
systems, including—
(i) real-time multi-hazard detection (severe weather,
wildfire, flood) using on-site sensors and data streams from
commercial sources and civil and Federal agencies;
(ii) advanced short- and medium-range forecasting and
predictive modeling leveraging commercial and government
data;
(iii) automated, geospatial, and role-based alerting to
installation commanders, emergency managers, first
responders, shelter managers, and alert personnel via SMS,
email, voice, common alerting protocols, and other
modalities;
(iv) a singular, authoritative dashboard that displays
real-time conditions, forecasts, alerts, and recommended
actions, and supports collaborative incident management
across stakeholders;
(v) configurable alert thresholds, layered notification
lists, and two-way acknowledgment and status reporting;
(vi) hardened communications, cybersecurity protections,
and redundancy appropriate to military installation
standards; and
(vii) enhanced actionable alerting capabilities or
equivalent functionality that enables prioritized,
actionable, and location-specific warnings and guidance;
(C) describe available commercial solutions and potential
costs associated with such solutions; and
(D) provide recommendations for additional legislative
actions to facilitate the improvement of severe weather
observations and warnings on military installations.