[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5123]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 870. Mr. COTTON (for himself and Mr. Graham) 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 end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 236. VERY-LOW PROFILE HARDWARE TO INTERACT WITH THE 
                   MOBILE USER OBJECTIVE SYSTEM AND OTHER SYSTEMS.

       (a) Additional Funding.--The amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2018 by section 201 for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby 
     increased by $8,000,000, with the amount of the increase to 
     be available for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution 
     System (PE 0604771D8Z).
       (b) Availability.--The amount available under subsection 
     (a) shall be available for the Secretary of Defense to study 
     and demonstrate very-low profile hardware, such as antennas 
     and chipsets, with software, encryption, and cyber and 
     network management tools necessary to interact with the 
     Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) and other systems that 
     are considered part of the Internet of things to provide 
     command, control, communications, and cyber restoral 
     capabilities.
       (c) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     fiscal year 2018 by section 301 for operation and maintenance 
     is hereby decreased by $8,000,000, with the amount of the 
     decrease to be applied as an increase to the reduction from 
     fuel savings in the funding table in section 4301.
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