S.Amdt. 4619

SA 4619. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Hoeven, and 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 I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. RISK MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION EFFORTS WITH
RESPECT TO CIVIL AND MILITARY UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS.

(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in
coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration and the heads of other relevant Federal
agencies, submit to Congress a report that--
(1) assesses the risk posed by civil unmanned aircraft
systems operating at or below 400 feet above ground level
to--
(A) the safety of aircraft of the Armed Forces operating in
military special use airspace and on military training
routes; and
(B) the security of military installations located in the
United States that directly support strategic operations of
the Armed Forces;
(2) assesses the technology the Department of Defense
employs to provide unmanned aircraft operators with airspace
situational awareness, the degree to which that technology is
compatible with any civilian unmanned aircraft system traffic
management system that may be part of the national airspace
system after the date of enactment of this Act, and the
potential of the technology to enhance the safety of the
United States national airspace system;
(3) describes--
(A) the cases in which unmanned aircraft of the Department
of Defense may need to be interoperable with any civilian
unmanned aircraft system traffic management system that may
be part of the national airspace system after the date of the
enactment of this Act; and
(B) the efforts of the Department of Defense to coordinate
with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration on--
(i) research, development, testing, and evaluation of
concepts, technologies, and systems required to ensure that
unmanned aircraft systems of the Department of Defense are
interoperable with any civilian unmanned aircraft system
traffic management system that may be part of the national
airspace system after such date of enactment; and
(ii) the development of technology and standards for any
civilian unmanned aircraft system traffic management system
that may be part of the national airspace system after such
date of enactment; and
(4) assesses the adequacy of current laws, regulations,
procedures, and activities to address risks assessed under
paragraph (1) and identifies additional actions that may be
appropriate and necessary to address such risks.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Civil unmanned aircraft system.--The term ``civil
unmanned aircraft system'' means an unmanned aircraft system
that is a civil aircraft (as that term is defined in section
40102 of title 49, United States Code).
(2) Unmanned aircraft; unmanned aircraft system.--The terms
``unmanned aircraft'' and ``unmanned aircraft system'' have
the meanings given those terms in section 331 of the FAA
Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95; 49
U.S.C. 40101 note).
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