S.Amdt. 5540

SA 5540. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 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 III, the following:

SEC. 332. REPORT ON EQUIPPING MILITARY AIRCRAFT WITH LASER-BASED COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE PROTECTION OF SUCH AIRCRAFT.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the plans of the Department of Defense for equipping fixed wing and rotary wing military aircraft with laser-based countermeasures for the protection of such aircraft. The report shall include a description of the plans of the Department to consider a full range of technologies to provide a functional, laser-based infrared countermeasure capability for both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft.