S.Amdt. 984

SA 984. Ms. WARREN (for herself and Mr. Lee) 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:

In section 1635, strike subsection (c) and insert the
following:
(c) Report on Military and Security Ramifications of
Russia's Ground-launched Cruise Missile.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of State, shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report including the
following elements:
(A) A description of the status of the Russian Federation's
new ground-launched cruise missile (SSC-8), its capabilities,
and the threat it poses to the allies and assets of the
United States in Europe and Asia.
(B) An assessment of whether the United States faces
significant military disadvantages with the introduction of
the SSC-8 to the European continent.
(C) An assessment of capability gaps that a new United
States ground-launched intermediate-range missile with a
range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers would address in
Europe and Asia and whether such a missile is the preferred
military response to Russian Federation violations of the INF
Treaty.
(D) The timeline for fielding such a ground-launched
intermediate-range missile, including time for research,
development, and deployment of the system, and the total cost
for development and deployment of the system.
(E) An assessment of the willingness of countries in Europe
or the Asia-Pacific region to complete the legal requirements
to host a ground-launched intermediate-range missile with a
range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers for counterforce or
countervailing strike missions against the Russian Federation
and the People's Republic of China.
(F) An assessment of the North Atlantic Council's
willingness to endorse development of a ground-launched
intermediate-range missile as part of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization's collective response to the failure of
the Russian Federation to comply with the INF Treaty.
(G) A determination of whether the United States
developing, producing, or flight-testing a ground-launched
intermediate-range missile would be compliant with the INF
Treaty.
(2) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--None of the funds
authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made
available for fiscal year 2018 for a research and development
program for a dual-capable road-mobile ground-launched
missile system with a maximum range of 5,500 kilometers may
be obligated or expended until the reports required by
subsections (b) and (c) are received by the congressional
defense committees.
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