S.Amdt. 488

SA 488. Ms. HEITKAMP submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for
military construction,

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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. 1049. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON USE OF TEST SITES FOR
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON COUNTERING UNMANNED
AERIAL SYSTEMS.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the armed unmanned aerial systems deployed by
adversaries for military purposes pose a threat to military
installations, critical infrastructure, and members of the
Armed Forces in conflict areas like Iraq and Syria;
(2) the unmanned aerial systems test sites designated by
the Federal Aviation Administration offer unique
capabilities, expertise, and airspace for research and
development related to unmanned aerial systems; and
(3) the Armed Forces should, to the extent practicable,
seek to leverage the test sites described in paragraph (2)
for research and development on capabilities to counter the
nefarious use of unmanned aerial systems.
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