S.Amdt. 1016

SA 1016. Mr. STRANGE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed)
to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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 C of title I, add the following:

SEC. 127. HELICOPTER FORCE STRUCTURE ASSESSMENT.

Not later than February 15, 2018, the Secretary of the Navy
shall brief the congressional defense committees on the
results of an assessment of the Navy's helicopter force
structure.
In the funding table in section 4101, at the appropriate
place under the heading ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'' insert
an item relating to MH-60R, budget line 15, with an amount of
``0'' in the FY 2018 Request column and an amount of
``610,000'' in the Senate Authorized column.
In the funding table in section 4301, in the item relating
to Fuel Savings, increase the amount of the reduction
indicated in the Senate Authorized column by $1,007,627,000.
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