S.Amdt. 2799

SA 2799. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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. 144. PROCUREMENT OF F-35 DEVELOPMENTAL TESTING AIRCRAFT.

Section 225(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 137 Stat. 195) is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) by striking ``two'' each place it appears and inserting
``three''; and
(B) by striking ``2030'' and inserting ``2034''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(3) Developmental testing modifications.--Any
developmental testing modifications to aircraft designated
under paragraph (1) may be procured using funds made
available to the F-35 aircraft program for research,
development, test, and evaluation or procurement of
aircraft.''.
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