S.Amdt. 4218

SA 4218. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
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 D of title I, add the following:

SEC. 147. ACQUISITION STRATEGY FOR AIR FORCE HELICOPTERS.

(a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees an acquisition
strategy for replacement of the Air Force UH-1N helicopter
program.
(b) Elements.--The acquisition strategy required under
subsection (a) shall include--
(1) a description of the separate and distinct rotorcraft
requirements among Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Force
District of Washington, and other Major Command airlift
missions;
(2) a life-cycle cost analysis of mixed-fleet versus
single-fleet acquisition of aircraft; and
(3) consideration of the trade-offs between the capability
and affordability of commercial derivative aircraft versus
military purpose designed aircraft.
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