S.Amdt. 4554

SA 4554. Mr. COTTON 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 I, add the following:

SEC. 164. RESTRICTION ON PROCUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT NOT CAPABLE
OF PERFORMING CERTAIN MISSIONS.

(a) In General.--Except as provided under subsection (b),
the Secretary of a military department may not procure any
aircraft that is not capable of performing the primary or
secondary mission of the aircraft in the expected threat
environment in which the aircraft will operate during
conflict.
(b) Waiver.--The Secretary of a military department may
waive the requirement under subsection (a) if the Secretary
certifies to the congressional defense committees that the
aircraft--
(1) will not be used inside a threat envelope; or
(2) will be unmanned.

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