[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 104 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 814. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 764 submitted by Mr. Inhofe and intended to be proposed to 
the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 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:

       Section 5211 is amended to read as follows:

     SEC. 5211. DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION STRATEGY TO PROCURE 
                   SECURE, LOW PROBABILITY OF DETECTION DATA LINK 
                   NETWORK CAPABILITY.

       The text of subsections (a) through (c) of section 211 are 
     hereby deemed to read as follows:
       ``(a) Strategy Required.--Not later than April 1, 2020, the 
     Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Chief of Naval 
     Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Army shall jointly 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a joint 
     development and acquisition strategy to procure a secure, low 
     probability of detection data link network capability, with 
     the ability to effectively operate in hostile jamming 
     environments while preserving the low observability 
     characteristics of the relevant platforms, including both 
     existing and planned platforms.
       ``(b) Network Characteristics.--The data link network 
     capability to be procured pursuant to the development and 
     acquisition strategy submitted under subsection (a) shall--
       ``(1) ensure that any network made with such capability 
     will be low risk and affordable, with minimal impact or 
     change to existing host platforms and minimal overall 
     integration costs;
       ``(2) use a non-proprietary and open systems approach 
     compatible with the Rapid Capabilities Office Open Mission 
     Systems initiative of the Air Force and the Future Airborne 
     Capability Environment initiative of the Navy; and
       ``(3) provide for an architecture to connect, with 
     operationally relevant throughput and latency--
       ``(A) fifth-generation combat aircraft;
       ``(B) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat 
     aircraft;
       ``(C) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat 
     aircraft and appropriate support aircraft and other network 
     nodes for command, control, communications, intelligence, 
     surveillance, and reconnaissance purposes; and
       ``(D) fifth-generation and fourth-generation combat 
     aircraft and their associated network-enabled precision 
     weapons.
       ``(c) Limitation.--Of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for 
     fiscal year 2020 for operations and maintenance for the 
     Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, for operations and 
     maintenance for the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, and 
     for operations and maintenance for the Office of the 
     Secretary of the Army, not more than 75 percent may be 
     obligated or expended until the date that is 15 days after 
     the date on which the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the 
     Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Army 
     submit the development and acquisition strategy required by 
     subsection (a).''.
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