[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3262]
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SA 2369. Mr. HOEVEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 F of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1066. SENSE OF SENATE ON MANAGEMENT OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS TRAFFIC WITHIN THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE
SYSTEM.
It is the sense of the Senate that the Department of
Defense should collaborate with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration on the development of systems or
technologies to manage unmanned aircraft systems traffic
within the national airspace system in order to--
(1) ensure that unmanned aircraft systems owned or operated
by the Department can be flown safely, wherever they are
authorized to fly in the national airspace system; and
(2) enhance the ability of the Department to mitigate
threats to its facilities and assets posed by unmanned
aircraft as authorized by section 130i of title 10, United
States Code.
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