S.Amdt. 2545

SA 2545. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PLAN FOR RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF AUTONOMOUS
VEHICLE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE BASE OPERATIONS
COSTS.

(a) Plan Required.--Not later than the date that is one
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall,
in consultation with the Secretaries of the military
departments and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research
and Engineering, submit to the congressional defense
committees a plan for the development, demonstration, and
employment of autonomous vehicle technologies to reduce base
operations costs.
(b) Elements.--The plan required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An overview of the potential for autonomous vehicles to
reduce base operations costs.
(2) A description of the potential of commercially-
available autonomous vehicles to be demonstrated on military
installations in the next three years, including emerging
transportation technologies on-base, especially those that
help reduce costs, improve safety, and deliver required
services more efficiently and effectively.
(3) A description of the benefits of coordination with
industrial, academic, and State and local partners in
demonstrations of and deployment of autonomous vehicles to
reduce base operations costs.
(4) Plans for research and development activities,
including establishment of testbeds, that would improve the
capabilities of autonomous vehicles to reduce base operations
costs.
(5) Plans to develop data collection methodologies, data
analysis techniques, and metrics to evaluate the success of
initiatives relating to the development, demonstration, and
employment of autonomous vehicle technologies to reduce base
operations costs.
(6) Plans for specific demonstration activities at military
installations relating to employment of autonomous vehicle
technologies to reduce base operations costs.
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