S.Amdt. 870

SA 870. Mr. COTTON (for himself and Mr. Graham) 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 C of title II, add the following:

SEC. 236. VERY-LOW PROFILE HARDWARE TO INTERACT WITH THE
MOBILE USER OBJECTIVE SYSTEM AND OTHER SYSTEMS.

(a) Additional Funding.--The amount authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2018 by section 201 for
research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby
increased by $8,000,000, with the amount of the increase to
be available for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution
System (PE 0604771D8Z).
(b) Availability.--The amount available under subsection
(a) shall be available for the Secretary of Defense to study
and demonstrate very-low profile hardware, such as antennas
and chipsets, with software, encryption, and cyber and
network management tools necessary to interact with the
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and other systems that
are considered part of the Internet of things to provide
command, control, communications, and cyber restoral
capabilities.
(c) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for
fiscal year 2018 by section 301 for operation and maintenance
is hereby decreased by $8,000,000, with the amount of the
decrease to be applied as an increase to the reduction from
fuel savings in the funding table in section 4301.
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