[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4528]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 531. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. LETHALITY AND RESILIENCY OF THE FUTURE GUIDED 
                   MISSILE FRIGATE (FFG(X)).

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Navy should evaluate all United States and Allied 
     naval gun, missile, and warfare system solutions capable of 
     being integrated on the Future Guided Missile Frigate 
     (FFG(X)); and
       (2) should not limit or designate the integration of a 
     specific naval gun or warfare system on the FFG(X) at any 
     time during the development and acquisition process of the 
     FFG(X) program, beginning with the market assessment period, 
     in order to ensure a transparent, open, and comprehensive 
     evaluation of future required combat lethality and self-
     defense resiliency capabilities.
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