[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3313]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4272. Mrs. SHAHEEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her 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:

       Strike section 212 and insert the following:

     SEC. 212. ENHANCEMENT AND PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR DEFENSE 
                   RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RAPID INNOVATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Coordination of Program.--Subsection (a) of section 
     1073 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111-383; 124 Stat. 4366; 10 
     U.S.C. 2359 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following: ``The program shall be coordinated with the senior 
     acquisition executives of the departments, Agencies, and 
     components of the Department of Defense.''.
       (b) Department of Defense Expenditures.--Subsection (d) of 
     such section is amended to read as follows:
       ``(d) DoD Expenditures.--(1) For fiscal year 2018 and each 
     fiscal year thereafter, the Department of Defense shall 
     obligate for expenditure for eligible technologies not less 
     than 0.5 percent of the aggregate budget of the Department of 
     Defense for such fiscal year for research, development, test, 
     and evaluation and available for projects and activities at 
     the level of Advanced Component Development Prototypes and 
     above (referred to as `6.4' and above).
       ``(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) may be construed to prohibit 
     the departments, Agencies, and components of the Department 
     from expending on eligible technologies in a fiscal year an 
     amount for that fiscal year in excess of the amount otherwise 
     required by that paragraph.''.
       (c) Permanent Authority.--Such section is further amended 
     by striking subsection (f).
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