S.Amdt. 4134

SA 4134. Mr. HOEVEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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 F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1059. AUTHORITY OF THE AIR FORCE TO CONTRACT FOR
TRAINING OF AIR FORCE PERSONNEL IN PILOTING AND
MAINTAINING REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT.

(a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Air Force may enter
into contracts with qualified entities to provide training
for Air Force personnel in piloting and maintaining remotely
piloted aircraft.
(b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report setting forth the
following:
(1) The number and scope of any current contracts entered
into pursuant to subsection (a).
(2) A justification for the determination of the Secretary
to enter or not enter, as the case may be, into contracts
authorized by subsection (a), including, if the Secretary has
not entered into such contracts--
(A) whether the number of remotely piloted aircraft pilots
and maintenance crews of the Air Force is sufficient to meet
the stated goal of 60 combat lines using such aircraft
without such contracts; and
(B) a description of any legal or financial impediments to
the utility of such contracts.
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