S.Amdt. 940

SA 940. Mrs. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Cotton, and Mrs. Shaheen)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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. __. INTERIM COMBAT SERVICE RIFLE.

(a) Acquisition Authority.--The Secretary of the Army is
authorized to expedite acquiring a commercially available
off-the-shelf item, non-developmental item, or Government-
off-the-shelf materiel solution for an Interim Combat Service
Rifle for purposes of defeating the evolving threat that has
placed the United States Armed Forces at increased risk.
(b) Acceleration of Related Programs.--

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(1) In general.--To ensure a complete capability is fielded
simultaneously with the acquisition program authorized under
subsection (a), the Secretary is also authorized to use
funding under the program to accelerate by one year the Squad
Designated Marksman Rifle program and by two years the
Advanced Armor Piercing ammunition program.
(2) Rule of construction.--The authority under this
subsection does not supersede the requirement to develop a
Next Generation Squad Weapon.
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