S.Amdt. 1498

SA 1498. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 236. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON COMMON AIRBORNE SENSE AND
AVOID TECHNOLOGY ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

It is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) timely integration and first article delivery of Common
Airborne Sense and Avoid technology on unmanned aircraft
systems of the Department of Defense is a key requirement to
ensuring greater access by the Department of Defense to the
airspace of the United States and sustaining United States
leadership in the unmanned aircraft systems industry;
(2) the technology described in paragraph (1) plays a
crucial role in the development of civil standards by the
Federal Aviation Administration, in coordination with the
efforts of unmanned aircraft systems test centers and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and
(3) the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air
Force should fully support and fund continued research,
development, testing, integration, and first article delivery
of the technology described in paragraph (1) on unmanned
aircraft systems of the Department.
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