S.Amdt. 4377

SA 4377. Mr. HATCH 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 A of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1613. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PROCUREMENT OF VEHICLES FOR
THE EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM.

It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Air
Force should assess whether there could be benefits from
maintaining three providers of vehicles for the evolved
expendable launch vehicle program for next-generation launch
to mitigate risk in the program and to increase competition
in and lower the cost of the program.
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