[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1033. Mr. PERDUE (for himself, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
Cotton, and Ms. Baldwin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) 
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 D of title I, add the following:

     SEC. __. REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUATION OF E-8 JSTARS 
                   RECAPITALIZATION PROGRAM.

       If the Secretary of the Air Force proposes in a budget 
     request to cancel or modify the current E-8C JSTARS 
     recapitalization program as presented to Congress in May 
     2017, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report at the 
     same time as the Secretary of the Air Force makes such a 
     request budget request. That report shall set forth the 
     following:
       (1) The rationale and appropriate supporting analysis for 
     the proposed cancellation or modification.
       (2) An assessment of the implications of such cancellation 
     or modification for the Air Force, Air National Guard, Army, 
     Army National Guard, Navy and Marine Corps, and combatant 
     commands' mission needs.
       (3) A certification that such cancellation or modification 
     of the previous recapitalization program plan would not 
     result in an increased time during which there is a 
     capability gap in providing Battlefield Management, Command 
     and Control/Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance 
     (BMC2/ISR) to the combatant commanders.
       (4) Such other matters relating to the proposed 
     cancellation or modification as the Secretary considers 
     appropriate.
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