[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3824]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1750. Mr. WARNER 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH PROGRAM.

       (a) Requirement to Develop and Deploy UAS Technologies.--
     The Secretary of Defense and the Director of National 
     Intelligence shall work in conjunction with the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security, the Secretary of Transportation, the 
     Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, the heads of other Federal agencies, existing 
     UAS test sites designated by the Federal Aviation 
     Administration, the private sector, and academia on the 
     research and development of technologies to safely detect, 
     identify, classify, and deconflict UAS in the national air 
     space, integrate UAS, and deploy proven UAS mitigation 
     technologies--
       (1) to ensure that UAS operate safely in the national air 
     space;
       (2) to ensure that, as the commercial use of UAS 
     technologies increase and are safely integrated into the 
     national air space, the United States is taking full 
     advantage of existing and developmental technologies to 
     detect, identify, classify, track, and counteract UAS in and 
     around restricted and controlled air space, such as airports, 
     military training areas, National Special Security Events, 
     and sensitive national security locations;
       (3) to yield important insights for the Department of 
     Defense, intelligence community, Department of Homeland 
     Security, and civilian and private sector applications;
       (4) to provide intelligence, reconnaissance, and 
     surveillance capabilities over widely dispersed and expansive 
     territories; and
       (5) to improve methods for protecting privacy and civil 
     liberties related to the use of UAS.
       (b) UAS Defined.--In this section, the term ``UAS'' means 
     unmanned aerial systems.
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