S.Amdt. 4272

SA 4272. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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:

Strike section 212 and insert the following:

SEC. 212. ENHANCEMENT AND PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR DEFENSE
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RAPID INNOVATION
PROGRAM.

(a) Coordination of Program.--Subsection (a) of section
1073 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111-383; 124 Stat. 4366; 10
U.S.C. 2359 note) is amended by adding at the end the
following: ``The program shall be coordinated with the senior
acquisition executives of the departments, Agencies, and
components of the Department of Defense.''.
(b) Department of Defense Expenditures.--Subsection (d) of
such section is amended to read as follows:
``(d) DoD Expenditures.--(1) For fiscal year 2018 and each
fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Defense shall
obligate for expenditure for eligible technologies not less
than 0.5 percent of the aggregate budget of the Department of
Defense for such fiscal year for research, development, test,
and evaluation and available for projects and activities at
the level of Advanced Component Development Prototypes and
above (referred to as `6.4' and above).
``(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) may be construed to prohibit
the departments, Agencies, and components of the Department
from expending on eligible technologies in a fiscal year an
amount for that fiscal year in excess of the amount otherwise
required by that paragraph.''.
(c) Permanent Authority.--Such section is further amended
by striking subsection (f).
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