[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1868. 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, 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 G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1085. 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, and classify potentially threatening UAS in the 
     national air space and to develop mitigation technologies--
       (1) to ensure that, as the commercial use of UAS 
     technologies increases and such technologies 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 potentially threatening UAS, including in and 
     around restricted and controlled air space, such as airports, 
     military training areas, National Special Security Events, 
     and sensitive national security locations; and
       (2) to contribute to the development of intelligence, 
     reconnaissance, and surveillance capabilities for national 
     security over widely dispersed and expansive territories.
       (b) UAS Defined.--In this section, the term ``UAS'' means 
     unmanned aerial systems.
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