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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6708. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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. . PILOT PROGRAM ON RENEWABLE WATER-FROM-AIR SYSTEM
FIELDING AND EVALUATION.
(a) Establishment.—Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall
establish a pilot program for the rapid fielding, testing,
and evaluation of approved renewable water-from-air (RWA)
systems.
(b) Purpose.—The purpose of this pilot program established
under subsection (a) is to procure and deploy approved
renewable water-from-air systems at select domestic and
foreign installations with the intent of evaluating—
(1) capabilities to provide resilient and independent
strategic, operational, and tactical, expeditionary, and
distributed water sustainment;
(2) capacity to support installation or unit water
sustainment needs, including under emergency and combat
scenarios; and
(3) ability to support global and domestic humanitarian and
disaster response missions.
(c) Selection of Installations and Missions.—
(1) In general.—The Secretary shall select domestic and
foreign installations or expeditionary missions on which it
will deploy one or more approved renewable water-from-air
systems.
(2) Priority.—In selecting these locations, the Secretary
shall prioritize locations where water infrastructure or
supply chains are likely to be contested, degraded,
geographically constrained, environmentally stressed, or
vulnerable to disruption by natural disasters, infrastructure
failure, cyberattack, electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack,
chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN), kinetic
attack, sabotage, or other disruptions.
(d) System Selections.—In procuring or acquiring renewable
water-from-air systems, the Secretary shall require the
following criteria to have been met prior to deployment:
(1) Domestically manufactured with 85 percent United States
supply chain and have no ownership or control by a foreign
entity of concern (as defined in section 9901 of the William
M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 4651)).
(2) Undergone field trials, field testing, or been used in
combat at any time before the date of the enactment of this
Act by one or more element of the uniformed services (as
defined in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code).
(3) Equipped with protections for making water in
electromagnetic pulse attack- and nuclear-contested
environments.
(e) Report.—Not later than 180 days after the date on
which the pilot program required by subsection (a) is
completed, but not later than March 31, 2030, the Secretary
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
that evaluates the deployment of renewable water-from-air
systems, including—
(1) system performance and cost;
(2) water sustainment capabilities;
(3) capability to enhance resilience and redundancy;
(4) recommendations relating to further research; and
(5) establishment of a program of record and system
acquisition for the wider uniformed services (as defined in
section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code).
(f) Authorization of Appropriations.—There is authorized
to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this
section, $25,000,000 for the period beginning on the date of
the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2029.