[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8087-S8088]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4554. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 E of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 164. RESTRICTION ON PROCUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT NOT CAPABLE 
                   OF PERFORMING CERTAIN MISSIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided under subsection (b), 
     the Secretary of a military department may not procure any 
     aircraft that is not capable of performing the primary or 
     secondary mission of the aircraft in the expected threat 
     environment in which the aircraft will operate during 
     conflict.
       (b) Waiver.--The Secretary of a military department may 
     waive the requirement under subsection (a) if the Secretary 
     certifies to the congressional defense committees that the 
     aircraft--
       (1) will not be used inside a threat envelope; or
       (2) will be unmanned.

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