S.Amdt. 2504

SA 2504. 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 I of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 896. ADVANCED HELICOPTER TRAINING SYSTEM.

In developing the requirements for the Navy's Advanced
Helicopter Training System, the Secretary of the Navy shall
take into consideration--
(1) the projected cost and schedule impacts of any
development or non-developmental integration requirements;

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(2) the level to which the new training system will enhance
the transition to current Navy advance aircraft and any next
generation Future Vertical Lift aircraft technologies and
capabilities;
(3) the efficiencies and cost benefits provided by the
capability to replicate advanced training tasks on a primary
trainer;
(4) the safety and efficiency and quality benefits of a
training aircraft with flight and power management
characteristics of a multi-engine trainer that is
representative of the more complex fleet helicopters; and
(5) the trends and best practices learned by other United
States and international military training programs.
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