[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 91 (Thursday, June 9, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3731]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4619. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Hatch) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 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 I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. RISK MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION EFFORTS WITH 
                   RESPECT TO CIVIL AND MILITARY UNMANNED AIRCRAFT 
                   SYSTEMS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in 
     coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
     Administration and the heads of other relevant Federal 
     agencies, submit to Congress a report that--
       (1) assesses the risk posed by civil unmanned aircraft 
     systems operating at or below 400 feet above ground level 
     to--
       (A) the safety of aircraft of the Armed Forces operating in 
     military special use airspace and on military training 
     routes; and
       (B) the security of military installations located in the 
     United States that directly support strategic operations of 
     the Armed Forces;
       (2) assesses the technology the Department of Defense 
     employs to provide unmanned aircraft operators with airspace 
     situational awareness, the degree to which that technology is 
     compatible with any civilian unmanned aircraft system traffic 
     management system that may be part of the national airspace 
     system after the date of enactment of this Act, and the 
     potential of the technology to enhance the safety of the 
     United States national airspace system;
       (3) describes--
       (A) the cases in which unmanned aircraft of the Department 
     of Defense may need to be interoperable with any civilian 
     unmanned aircraft system traffic management system that may 
     be part of the national airspace system after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act; and
       (B) the efforts of the Department of Defense to coordinate 
     with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National 
     Aeronautics and Space Administration on--
       (i) research, development, testing, and evaluation of 
     concepts, technologies, and systems required to ensure that 
     unmanned aircraft systems of the Department of Defense are 
     interoperable with any civilian unmanned aircraft system 
     traffic management system that may be part of the national 
     airspace system after such date of enactment; and
       (ii) the development of technology and standards for any 
     civilian unmanned aircraft system traffic management system 
     that may be part of the national airspace system after such 
     date of enactment; and
       (4) assesses the adequacy of current laws, regulations, 
     procedures, and activities to address risks assessed under 
     paragraph (1) and identifies additional actions that may be 
     appropriate and necessary to address such risks.
       (b) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Civil unmanned aircraft system.--The term ``civil 
     unmanned aircraft system'' means an unmanned aircraft system 
     that is a civil aircraft (as that term is defined in section 
     40102 of title 49, United States Code).
       (2) Unmanned aircraft; unmanned aircraft system.--The terms 
     ``unmanned aircraft'' and ``unmanned aircraft system'' have 
     the meanings given those terms in section 331 of the FAA 
     Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95; 49 
     U.S.C. 40101 note).
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