S.Amdt. 2085

SA 2085. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 III, add the following:

SEC. 333. PROCUREMENT OF MODERN, COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE, AND
OFF-THE-SHELF HEALTH AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
FOR THE UH-72A LAKOTA HELICOPTER.

The Secretary of the Army shall procure a modern,
commercially available, and off-the-shelf health and
communications system for the UH-72A Lakota helicopter to
upgrade the existing communications and health monitoring
system of such helicopter with a next generation satellite
communications system that--
(1) is digital, lightweight, and beyond line-of-sight;
(2) has a push-to-talk radio; and
(3) has voice to internet, real-time fleet health
monitoring, and recording capabilities.
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