S.Amdt. 4419

SA 4419. 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 a report on an
acquisition strategy for replacement of the Air Force UH-1N
helicopter program.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) a description of the Air Force rotorcraft requirements,
and the extent to which program requirements differ among Air
Force Global Strike Command, Air Force District of
Washington, and other Major Command airlift missions;
(2) a life-cycle cost analysis of alternatives, including
mixed-fleet versus single-fleet acquisition program solutions
to meet all Air Force requirements; 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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