S.Amdt. 2291

SA 2291. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2019 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. 144. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON KC-46A AERIAL REFUELING TANKER
EMERGENT REQUIREMENTS.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the KC-46A aircraft will serve as the backbone of the
Air Force's critical aerial refueling mission for the next
several decades, replacing the aging 1950's-era KC-135
Stratotanker fleet;
(2) the Air Force has provided funding for numerous
military construction projects at installations across the
country to prepare for the delivery and bed down of the KC-
46A aircraft;
(3) as the KC-46A program matures and requirements become
better defined, additional military construction and
facilities, sustainment, restoration and modernization (FSRM)
funding is likely to be necessary to properly support the
fielding of the aircraft, house additional personnel, and
meet unforeseen requirements of the tanker mission; and
(4) the Secretary of the Air Force should continue to
review and validate new emergent requirements and prepare to
provide additional military construction and FSRM funding in
its budget request for fiscal year 2020 and future years as
needed.
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