[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 146 (Monday, September 11, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 938. Mrs. ERNST (for herself and Mrs. McCaskill) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 B of title I, add the following:

     SEC. ___. AH-64 APACHE HELICOPTER PROGRAM.

       (a) Basing Decisions.--The Secretary of Defense shall halt 
     any decisions or actions taken pursuant to the Army 
     Restructuring Initiative (ARI) or recommendations of the 2016 
     National Commission on the Future of the Army (NCFA) relating 
     to the basing and force structure of AH-64 Apache 
     helicopters.
       (b) Analysis.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees a report with 
     findings of the updated and current analysis related to the 
     AH-64 Apache helicopter program, with respect to regular, 
     Reserve, and National Guard forces, which shall be 
     incorporated in the modernization strategy for the total Army 
     required in section 1062, and shall take into particular 
     account--
       (1) current and projected readiness data for relevant units 
     in the total Army;
       (2) current and anticipated pilot attrition, retention, and 
     training in the total Army, with consideration for 
     contractual training obligations for coalition partner 
     nations;
       (3) current trends and policy, without constraints from the 
     Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25), the Army 
     Aviation Restructuring Initiative, and the National 
     Commission on the Future of the Army (NCFA); and
       (4) the total number of Attack Reconnaissance Battalions 
     and Heavy Armed Reconnaissance Squadrons needed in the total 
     Army.
       (c) Resumption of Training.--In order to increase AH-64 
     Apache training capacity, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     resume AH-64 Army National Guard training at an additional 
     location which has demonstrated recent historical capability 
     to meet AH-64 pilot training requirements and increase 
     capacity of AH-64 pilots across the Army, Army National 
     Guard, and coalition partner nations.
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