[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1922. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Cochran) 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 and centers of excellence 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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