[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2545. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PLAN FOR RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATIONS OF AUTONOMOUS 
                   VEHICLE SYSTEMS TO REDUCE BASE OPERATIONS 
                   COSTS.

       (a) Plan Required.--Not later than the date that is one 
     year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall, 
     in consultation with the Secretaries of the military 
     departments and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research 
     and Engineering, submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a plan for the development, demonstration, and 
     employment of autonomous vehicle technologies to reduce base 
     operations costs.
       (b) Elements.--The plan required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An overview of the potential for autonomous vehicles to 
     reduce base operations costs.
       (2) A description of the potential of commercially-
     available autonomous vehicles to be demonstrated on military 
     installations in the next three years, including emerging 
     transportation technologies on-base, especially those that 
     help reduce costs, improve safety, and deliver required 
     services more efficiently and effectively.
       (3) A description of the benefits of coordination with 
     industrial, academic, and State and local partners in 
     demonstrations of and deployment of autonomous vehicles to 
     reduce base operations costs.
       (4) Plans for research and development activities, 
     including establishment of testbeds, that would improve the 
     capabilities of autonomous vehicles to reduce base operations 
     costs.
       (5) Plans to develop data collection methodologies, data 
     analysis techniques, and metrics to evaluate the success of 
     initiatives relating to the development, demonstration, and 
     employment of autonomous vehicle technologies to reduce base 
     operations costs.
       (6) Plans for specific demonstration activities at military 
     installations relating to employment of autonomous vehicle 
     technologies to reduce base operations costs.
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