To require a report related to the E-8C JSTARS recapitalization program.

SA 1033. Mr. PERDUE (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Graham, Mr.
Cotton, and Ms. Baldwin) 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 D of title I, add the following:

SEC. __. REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUATION OF E-8 JSTARS
RECAPITALIZATION PROGRAM.

If the Secretary of the Air Force proposes in a budget
request to cancel or modify the current E-8C JSTARS
recapitalization program as presented to Congress in May
2017, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report at the
same time as the Secretary of the Air Force makes such a
request budget request. That report shall set forth the
following:
(1) The rationale and appropriate supporting analysis for
the proposed cancellation or modification.
(2) An assessment of the implications of such cancellation
or modification for the Air Force, Air National Guard, Army,
Army National Guard, Navy and Marine Corps, and combatant
commands' mission needs.
(3) A certification that such cancellation or modification
of the previous recapitalization program plan would not
result in an increased time during which there is a
capability gap in providing Battlefield Management, Command
and Control/Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
(BMC2/ISR) to the combatant commanders.
(4) Such other matters relating to the proposed
cancellation or modification as the Secretary considers
appropriate.
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