S.Amdt. 4311

SA 4311. Mr. PETERS (for himself, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Wyden)
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 B of title II, add the following:

SEC. 221. AUTHORIZATION FOR RESEARCH TO IMPROVE MILITARY
VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE FUEL ECONOMY OR
REDUCE FUEL CONSUMPTION OF MILITARY GROUND
VEHICLES USED IN COMBAT.

(a) Research Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense, acting
through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering and in collaboration with the Secretary of the
Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Director of the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, may carry out
research to improve military ground vehicle technology to
increase fuel economy or reduce fuel consumption of military
ground vehicles used in combat.
(b) Previous Successes.--The Secretary of Defense shall
ensure that research carried out under subsection (a) takes
into account the successes of, and lessons learned during,
previous Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and
private sector efforts to identify, assess, develop,
demonstrate, and prototype technologies that support
increasing fuel economy or decreasing fuel consumption of
military ground vehicles, while balancing survivability, in
furtherance of military missions.
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