S.Amdt. 2064

SA 2064. Ms. COLLINS (for herself and Mr. King) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1197, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 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 A of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1003. AUTHORITY FOR ACCEPTANCE OF PAYMENT IN KIND IN SETTLEMENT OF A-12 AIRCRAFT LITIGATION.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the current fiscal year and hereafter, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to accept and retain the following consideration in lieu of a monetary payment for purposes of the settlement of the A-12 aircraft litigation arising from the default termination of Contract No. N00019-88-C-0050:

(1) From General Dynamics Corporation: credit in an amount not to exceed $198,000,000 toward the design, construction, and delivery of the steel deckhouse, hangar, and aft missile launching system for the DDG 1002.

(2) From the Boeing Company: Three EA-18G Growler aircraft, with installed Airborne Electronic Attack kits, valued at an amount not to exceed $198,000,000, at no cost to the Department of the Navy.