S.Amdt. 789

SA 789. Mr. CORNYN 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 end of subtitle B of title I, add the following:

SEC. ___. UPGRADE OF M113 VEHICLES.

No amounts authorized to be appropriated by this Act or
otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for
fiscal year 2018 may be obligated or expended to upgrade Army
M113 vehicles until the Secretary of the Army submits to the
congressional defense committees a report setting forth the
strategy of the Army for the upgrade of such vehicles. The
report shall include the following:
(1) A detailed strategy for upgrading and fielding M113
vehicles.
(2) An analysis of the manner in which the Army plans to
address M113 vehicle survivability and maneuverability
concerns.
(3) An analysis of the historical costs associated with
upgrading M113 vehicles, and a validation of current cost
estimates for upgrading such vehicles.
(4) A comparison of total procurement and life cycle costs
of adding an echelon above brigade (EAB) requirement to the
Army Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) with total procurement and
life cycle costs of upgrading legacy M113 vehicles.
(5) An analysis of the possibility of further accelerating
Army Multi-Purpose Vehicle production or modifying the
current fielding strategy for the Army Multi-Purpose Vehicle
to meet near-term echelon above brigade requirements.
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