S.Amdt. 3910Senate117th Congress (2021-2023)2nd degree

S.Amdt. 3910

Submitted October 26, 2021

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Senate amendment submitted

October 26, 2021

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SA 3910. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 857. BRIEFING ON EXPANDED SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS CAPABILITY.

The Secretary of Defense shall, not later than January 30,
2022, provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed Services
of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the
evaluation of commercially available small unmanned aircraft
systems (hereinafter referred to as ``sUAS'') with
capabilities that align with the Department's priorities,
including--
(1) the timing of the release of the updated list titled
``Blue sUAS 2.0'' of the Defense Innovation Unit that
contains available fixed wing and multirotor commercial small
unmanned aircraft systems compliant with section 848 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
(Public Law 116-92); and
(2) the advisability and feasibility of adding end-to-end
sUAS solutions to such list, including the sUAS, supporting
field management software, technical support, and training,
all provided as an integrated collection and analysis
capability.
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