[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5023]
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SA 2736. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 I, insert the following:
SEC. __. FUNDING FOR MQ-1C 25M GRAY EAGLE COMPANY AND
AIRCRAFT.
The amount authorized to be appropriated by this Act for
Aircraft Procurement, Army, MQ-1 UAV, as specified in the
funding table in section 4101, is hereby increased by
$350,000,000, with the amount of the increase to be available
to establish and designate a minimum of one MQ-1C 25M Gray
Eagle company equipped with 12 MQ-1C 25M Gray Eagle aircraft
in fiscal year 2025.
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