S.Amdt. 1868

SA 1868. Mr. WARNER 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, 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1085. UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROGRAM.

(a) Requirement to Develop and Deploy UAS Technologies.--
The Secretary of Defense and the Director of National
Intelligence shall work in conjunction with the Secretary of
Homeland Security, the Secretary of Transportation, the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, the heads of other Federal agencies, existing
UAS test sites designated by the Federal Aviation
Administration, the private sector, and academia on the
research and development of technologies to safely detect,
identify, and classify potentially threatening UAS in the
national air space and to develop mitigation technologies--
(1) to ensure that, as the commercial use of UAS
technologies increases and such technologies are safely
integrated into the national air space, the United States is
taking full advantage of existing and developmental
technologies to detect, identify, classify, track, and
counteract potentially threatening UAS, including in and
around restricted and controlled air space, such as airports,
military training areas, National Special Security Events,
and sensitive national security locations; and
(2) to contribute to the development of intelligence,
reconnaissance, and surveillance capabilities for national
security over widely dispersed and expansive territories.
(b) UAS Defined.--In this section, the term ``UAS'' means
unmanned aerial systems.
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