S.Amdt. 531

SA 531. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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, insert the following:

SEC. __. LETHALITY AND RESILIENCY OF THE FUTURE GUIDED
MISSILE FRIGATE (FFG(X)).

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) the Navy should evaluate all United States and Allied
naval gun, missile, and warfare system solutions capable of
being integrated on the Future Guided Missile Frigate
(FFG(X)); and
(2) should not limit or designate the integration of a
specific naval gun or warfare system on the FFG(X) at any
time during the development and acquisition process of the
FFG(X) program, beginning with the market assessment period,
in order to ensure a transparent, open, and comprehensive
evaluation of future required combat lethality and self-
defense resiliency capabilities.
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