S.Amdt. 882

SA 882. Mr. YOUNG 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 XVI, add the following:

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SEC. 1612. COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF MARITIME INTELLIGENCE,
SURVEILLANCE, RECONNAISSANCE, AND TARGETING.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than May 1, 2018, the
Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report on maritime intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting.
(b) Comprehensive Review.--The report required in
subsection (a) shall include a comprehensive review of the
following elements for the 2025 and 2035 timeframes:
(1) A description of the projected steady-state demands for
maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and
targeting capabilities and capacity in each timeframe,
including protracted gray-zone or low-intensity
confrontations between the United States or its allies and
potential adversaries such as Russia and China.
(2) A description of potential warfighting planning
scenarios in which maritime intelligence, surveillance,
reconnaissance, and targeting will be required in each
prescribed timeframe, including the most stressing such
scenario.
(3) A description of the undersea, surface, and air threats
for each scenario described in paragraph (1) that will
require maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance,
and targeting to be conducted in order to achieve warfighting
objectives.
(4) An assessment of the sufficiency of maritime
intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting
program capability and capacity to achieve the warfighting
objectives described in paragraph (3) in the most stressing
scenario described in paragraph (2), including the effects of
attrition.
(5) Planned operational concepts, including a High Level
Operational Concept Graphic (OV-1) for each such concept, for
conducting maritime intelligence, surveillance,
reconnaissance, and targeting during steady state operations
and warfighting scenarios described in paragraphs (1) and
(2). Consideration of distributed combat operations in a
satellite denied environment shall be included.
(6) Specific capability gaps or risk areas in the ability
or sufficiency of maritime intelligence, surveillance,
reconnaissance, and targeting.
(7) Potential solutions to address the capability gaps and
risk areas identified in paragraph (6), including new
capabilities, increased capacity, or new operating concepts
that could be employed by the Navy.
(8) A description of the funding amount by fiscal year,
initial operational capability, and full operational
capability for each maritime intelligence, surveillance,
reconnaissance, and targeting program identified in paragraph
(4), based on the President's fiscal year 2019 future years
defense program. Unfunded or partially funded programs shall
also be included.
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified
annex as necessary.
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