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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6308. Mr. CRUZ 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 B of title III, add the following:
SEC. 320C. SHARING OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL
OBSERVATIONAL DATA.
(a) Requirement.—Not later than 18 months after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, and
the Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the Secretary
of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, and the Under
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, shall
establish a process under which the Secretary of Defense, on
a continual or recurring basis, shall review and share
environmental observational data collected by the Department
of Defense with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration for the purposes of improving weather, ocean,
space weather forecasting, or any other mission area of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as
determined by the Secretary of Defense.
(b) Data Eligible for Sharing.—The process established
under subsection (a) shall identify real-time, near real-
time, and longer-time series environmental observational data
that—
(1) may improve weather, ocean, or space weather forecasts;
(2) is able to be released in an unclassified or
declassified form;
(3) is free from redistribution restrictions in contract or
other written agreements; and
(4) can be shared in standard machine-readable formats and
includes metadata.
(c) Declassification Review.—In establishing the process
under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall
establish procedures to review environmental observational
data for potential declassification or release in a manner
that protects sensitive sources and methods and preserves the
security of ongoing operations.
(d) Distribution Limitations for National Security.—In
establishing the process under subsection (a), the Secretary
of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall establish
procedures to review options and appropriate mechanisms to
conditionally limit distribution of certain military
environmental observational data provided under this section
during a national security crisis or war to deny adversary
use of such data while maintaining access by United States
civil agencies and non-adversarial nations.
(e) Report to Congress.—Not later than two years after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
and the Secretary of Commerce shall jointly submit to
Congress a report describing—
(1) categories of environmental observational data
identified for potential sharing under subsection (a);
(2) barriers to declassification or release of such data;
and
(3) recommendations to improve interagency data sharing and
any other relevant recommendations.