[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 88 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1498. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 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 II, add the following:

     SEC. 236. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON COMMON AIRBORNE SENSE AND 
                   AVOID TECHNOLOGY ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS 
                   OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       It is the sense of the Congress that--
       (1) timely integration and first article delivery of Common 
     Airborne Sense and Avoid technology on unmanned aircraft 
     systems of the Department of Defense is a key requirement to 
     ensuring greater access by the Department of Defense to the 
     airspace of the United States and sustaining United States 
     leadership in the unmanned aircraft systems industry;
       (2) the technology described in paragraph (1) plays a 
     crucial role in the development of civil standards by the 
     Federal Aviation Administration, in coordination with the 
     efforts of unmanned aircraft systems test centers and the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and
       (3) the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air 
     Force should fully support and fund continued research, 
     development, testing, integration, and first article delivery 
     of the technology described in paragraph (1) on unmanned 
     aircraft systems of the Department.
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