S.Amdt. 2240
What it does: Adds SEC. 153. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NONKINETIC COUNTER-ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS at the end of subtitle E of title I
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)What it changes
1 change to S. 1197 · shown in the bill's text
Adds SEC. 153. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NONKINETIC COUNTER-ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS at the end of subtitle E of title I
Adds a sectionIn S. 1197 · Placed on Calendar Senate
(3) the Department of Defense and Congress should endeavor to maintain budget and program predictability in order to attract and retain a skilled workforce to ensure the technological capabilities required to sustain the preeminence of the United States military helicopter fleets.
Inserted: SEC. 153. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NONKINETIC COUNTER-ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS.
Inserted: It is the sense of Congress that--
Inserted: (1) in carrying out the developmental planning effort of the Air Force for nonkinetic counter-electronics, the Secretary of Defense should consider the results of the successful joint technology capability demonstration conducted by the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project in 2012;
Inserted: (2) an analysis of alternatives is an important step in the long term-term development of a nonkinetic counter-electronic system;
Inserted: (3) the Secretary should pursue both near-term and long-term joint nonkinetic counter-electronic systems; and
Inserted: (4) the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project (or a variant thereof) should be considered among the options for a possible materiel solution in response to any near-term joint urgent operational need, joint emergent operational need, or combatant command integrated priority for a nonkinetic counter-electronic system.
Original wording
At the end of subtitle E of title I, add the following:
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As printed
SA 2240. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall of New Mexico) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 E of title I, add the following:
SEC. 153. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON NONKINETIC COUNTER-ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) in carrying out the developmental planning effort of the Air Force for nonkinetic counter-electronics, the Secretary of Defense should consider the results of the successful joint technology capability demonstration conducted by the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project in 2012;
(2) an analysis of alternatives is an important step in the long term-term development of a nonkinetic counter-electronic system;
(3) the Secretary should pursue both near-term and long-term joint nonkinetic counter-electronic systems; and
(4) the counter-electronics high power microwave missile project (or a variant thereof) should be considered among the options for a possible materiel solution in response to any near-term joint urgent operational need, joint emergent operational need, or combatant command integrated priority for a nonkinetic counter-electronic system.
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Senate amendment submitted
November 19, 2013