S.Amdt. 841

SA 841. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed to
the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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:

Section 5211 is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 5211. DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION STRATEGY TO PROCURE
SECURE, LOW PROBABILITY OF DETECTION DATA LINK
NETWORK CAPABILITY.

The text of subsections (a) through (c) of section 211 are
hereby deemed to read as follows:
``(a) Strategy Required.--Not later than April 1, 2020, the
Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Chief of Naval
Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Army shall jointly
submit to the congressional defense committees a joint
development and acquisition strategy to procure a secure, low
probability of detection data link network capability, with
the ability to effectively operate in hostile jamming
environments while preserving the low observability
characteristics of the relevant platforms, including both
existing and planned platforms.
``(b) Network Characteristics.--The data link network
capability to be procured pursuant to the development and
acquisition strategy submitted under subsection (a) shall--
``(1) ensure that any network made with such capability
will be low risk and affordable, with minimal impact or
change to existing host platforms and minimal overall
integration costs;
``(2) use a non-proprietary and open systems approach
compatible with the Rapid Capabilities Office Open Mission
Systems initiative of the Air Force and the Future Airborne
Capability Environment initiative of the Navy; and
``(3) provide for an architecture to connect, with
operationally relevant throughput and latency--
``(A) fifth-generation combat aircraft;
``(B) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat
aircraft;
``(C) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat
aircraft and appropriate support aircraft and other network
nodes for command, control, communications, intelligence,
surveillance, and reconnaissance purposes; and
``(D) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat
aircraft and their associated network-enabled precision
weapons.
``(c) Limitation.--Of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act for fiscal year 2020 for operations
and maintenance for the Office of the Secretary of the Air
Force, for operations and maintenance for the Office of the
Secretary of the Navy, and for operations and maintenance for
the Office of the Secretary of the Army, not more than 75
percent may be obligated or expended until the date that is
15 days after the date on which the Chief of Staff of the Air
Force, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Staff
of the Army submit the development and acquisition strategy
required by subsection (a).''.

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