S.Amdt. 881

SA 881. Mr. WICKER 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 16, add the following:

SEC. 1612. REPORT ON ACQUISITION STRATEGY TO RECAPITALIZE THE
EXISTING SYSTEM FOR UNDERSEA FIXED
SURVEILLANCE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
the acquisition strategy to recapitalize the existing system
for undersea fixed surveillance.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
address the following matters:
(1) A description of undersea fixed surveillance system
recapitalization requirements, including key performance
parameters and key system attributes as applicable.
(2) Cost estimates for procuring a future system or systems
(3) Projected dates for key milestones within the
acquisition strategy
(4) A description of how the acquisition strategy will
improve performance in the areas of detection and
localization compared to the legacy system to enable
effective performance against current, emerging, and future
threats over the life of the systems.
(5) A description of how the acquisition strategy will
encourage competition and reward innovation for addressing
system performance requirements.
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