[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 82 (Tuesday, May 24, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3118-S3119]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4134. Mr. HOEVEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by

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him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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 F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1059. AUTHORITY OF THE AIR FORCE TO CONTRACT FOR 
                   TRAINING OF AIR FORCE PERSONNEL IN PILOTING AND 
                   MAINTAINING REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT.

       (a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Air Force may enter 
     into contracts with qualified entities to provide training 
     for Air Force personnel in piloting and maintaining remotely 
     piloted aircraft.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report setting forth the 
     following:
       (1) The number and scope of any current contracts entered 
     into pursuant to subsection (a).
       (2) A justification for the determination of the Secretary 
     to enter or not enter, as the case may be, into contracts 
     authorized by subsection (a), including, if the Secretary has 
     not entered into such contracts--
       (A) whether the number of remotely piloted aircraft pilots 
     and maintenance crews of the Air Force is sufficient to meet 
     the stated goal of 60 combat lines using such aircraft 
     without such contracts; and
       (B) a description of any legal or financial impediments to 
     the utility of such contracts.
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