S.Amdt. 2350

SA 2350. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed 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 E of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1052. REPORT ON THE X-47B UNMANNED COMBAT AERIAL
VEHICLE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Commander of the Naval Air
Systems Command shall submit to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a
report on potential opportunities for the use of the X-47B
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle.
(b) Assessment.--The report required by subsection (a)
shall include an assessment of the feasibility and
advisability of using the X-47B Unmanned Combat Aerial
Vehicle in support of unmanned aerial refueling and long-
range penetrating strike missions, which assessment shall
take into account and address the following in connection
with such missions:
(1) Development of concepts of operations.
(2) Development of tactics, techniques, and procedures.
(3) Software development.
(4) Hardware development.
(5) Other technological risk reduction activities.
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