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1 1. 114TH CONGRESS REPORT. " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ! 2d Session 114 537. NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT. FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017. R E P O R T. OF THE. COMMITTEE ON ARMED services . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ON. 4909. together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS. [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]. SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. MAY 4, 2016. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed E:\Seals\Congress.#13. VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6012 Sfmt 6012 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017. SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. 1. 114TH CONGRESS REPORT. " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES !

2 2d Session 114 537. NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT. FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017. R E P O R T. OF THE. COMMITTEE ON ARMED services . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ON. 4909. together with ADDITIONAL VIEWS. [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]. MAY 4, 2016. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE. 99 910 WASHINGTON : 2016. E:\Seals\Congress.#13. VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4012 Sfmt 4012 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. COMMITTEE ON ARMED services . ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. WILLIAM M. MAC'' THORNBERRY, Texas, Chairman WALTER B. JONES, North Carolina ADAM SMITH, Washington J. RANDY FORBES, Virginia LORETTA SANCHEZ, California JEFF MILLER, Florida ROBERT A. BRADY, Pennsylvania JOE WILSON, South Carolina SUSAN A.

3 DAVIS, California FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey JAMES R. LANGEVIN, Rhode Island ROB BISHOP, Utah RICK LARSEN, Washington MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio JIM COOPER, Tennessee JOHN KLINE, Minnesota MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam MIKE ROGERS, Alabama JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut TRENT FRANKS, Arizona NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania JOHN GARAMENDI, California K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas HENRY C. HANK'' JOHNSON, JR., Georgia DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado JACKIE SPEIER, California ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia JOAQUIN CASTRO, Texas DUNCAN HUNTER, California TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana SCOTT H. PETERS, California MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado MARC A. VEASEY, Texas CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York TULSI GABBARD, Hawaii VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota JOSEPH J. HECK, Nevada BETO O'ROURKE, Texas AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey MO BROOKS, Alabama RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona RICHARD B.

4 NUGENT, Florida MARK TAKAI, Hawaii PAUL COOK, California GWEN GRAHAM, Florida JIM BRIDENSTINE, Oklahoma BRAD ASHFORD, Nebraska BRAD R. WENSTRUP, Ohio SETH MOULTON, Massachusetts JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana PETE AGUILAR, California BRADLEY BYRNE, Alabama SAM GRAVES, Missouri RYAN K. ZINKE, Montana ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York MARTHA MCSALLY, Arizona STEPHEN KNIGHT, California THOMAS MACARTHUR, New Jersey STEVE RUSSELL, Oklahoma ROBERT L. SIMMONS II, Staff Director SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. (II). VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. CONTENTS. Page Purpose of the Legislation .. 1. Rationale for the Committee Bill .. 2. Hearings .. 9. Committee Position .. 9. Explanation of the Committee Amendments .. 9. Relationship of AUTHORIZATION to Appropriations .. 9. Summary of Discretionary Authorizations in the Bill.

5 9. Budget Authority Implication .. 10. DIVISION A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS .. 10. TITLE I PROCUREMENT .. 10. Aircraft Procurement, Army .. 10. Items of Special Interest .. 10. Brigade combat team utilization of unmanned aircraft systems in training operations .. 10. Missile Procurement, Army .. 11. Items of Special Interest .. 11. Joint air-to-ground missile increment 2 acquisition strategy .. 11. Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army .. 11. Items of Special Interest .. 11. Army NATIONAL Guard M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle up- grades .. 11. M240 medium machine gun modernization .. 12. Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System .. 12. Procurement of Ammunition, Army .. 13. Items of Special Interest .. 13. Ammunition industrial base investment strategies .. 13. Small guided munitions acquisition strategy.

6 13. Other Procurement, Army .. 14. Items of Special Interest .. 14. Accelerate fielding of personal dosimeters .. 14. Army small-scale experimentation .. 14. Army tactical communications waveforms .. 14. Bridge Erection Boat program .. 15. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Response Enterprise Information Management System .. 15. Ground mobility vehicle .. 16. High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ambulance recapitaliza- tion .. 16. Material handling equipment modernization strategy .. 17. Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio .. 17. Tactical Communication and Protective System .. 17. Aircraft Procurement, Navy .. 18. Items of Special Interest .. 18. MQ 8 Fire Scout aircraft .. 18. V 22 Osprey .. 18. Weapons Procurement, Navy .. 19. Items of Special Interest .. 19. Littoral Combat Ship Over-the-Horizon Missile .. 19. Tomahawk Block IV.

7 19. Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy .. 20. Items of Special Interest .. 20. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer .. 20. SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. Cruiser replacement strategy .. 20. CVN 81 advance procurement .. 20. (III). VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 6646 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. IV. Page Expeditionary Mobile Base ship .. 21. Frigate .. 21. Landing Craft Air Cushion Service Life Extension Program .. 21. Littoral Combat Ship .. 22. LX(R) Dock Landing Ship Replacement Program .. 22. Modular ship design .. 22. Service Craft .. 23. Ship to Shore Connector .. 23. Strike capability assessment from surface amphibious forces .. 23. TAO(X) oiler shipbuilding program .. 24. Undersea Mobility for Special Operation Forces .. 24. Virginia Class Submarine .. 25. Virginia class submarine industrial base capacity.

8 25. Other Procurement, Navy .. 26. Items of Special Interest .. 26. Destroyer modernization .. 26. Joint Strike Fighter integration on amphibious ships .. 26. Navy Communications .. 27. Navy expeditionary combat patrol boat requirements .. 27. Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment Program .. 28. Procurement, Marine Corps .. 29. Items of Special Interest .. 29. Marine Corps fielding of Enhanced Combat Helmet .. 29. Mobile User Objective System capability .. 29. Non-lethal ocular interruption capabilities .. 30. Aircraft Procurement, Air Force .. 30. Items of Special Interest .. 30. A 10 aircraft .. 30. Aerial refueling recapitalization .. 32. Air Force Command, Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Recon- naissance (C2 ISR) Fleet .. 32. Air NATIONAL Guard F 16 mission training centers .. 32. Aircraft urethane sealant upgrades .. 33. B 21 bomber.

9 33. B 21 Development Progress Matrix .. 34. Basing priorities for future Air NATIONAL Guard Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems missions .. 34. Battlefield Airborne Communications Node .. 35. C 130H Modernization .. 35. C 130J Hercules aircraft .. 36. C 40A Clipper aircraft .. 36. Demonstration of high performance unmanned jet aircraft .. 37. E 8C prime mission equipment diminishing manufacturing sources kits .. 37. EC 130H Compass Call recapitalization .. 37. F 22 production restart assessment .. 38. F 35 Lightning II aircraft program .. 39. MQ 9 production funding in Future Years DEFENSE Program .. 40. Reporting requirement for C 130H recapitalization and moderniza- tion .. 40. UH 1N replacement program .. 40. Air Force combat search and rescue .. 41. Marine Corps C/KC 130 digital interoperability .. 42. Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force.

10 43. Items of Special Interest .. 43. 25 millimeter ammunition for the F 35 program .. 43. Other Procurement, Air Force .. 43. Items of Special Interest .. 43. Civil engineers construction, surveying, and mapping equipment .. 43. Procurement, DEFENSE -Wide .. 44. Items of Special Interest .. 44. Replacement of MH 60M for United States Special Operations Com- mand .. 44. LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS .. 44. SSpencer on DSK4 SPTVN1 PROD with REPORTS. Subtitle A AUTHORIZATION of Appropriations .. 44. Section 101 AUTHORIZATION of Appropriations .. 44. Subtitle B Army Programs .. 44. VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:54 May 06, 2016 Jkt 099910 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 6646 E:\HR\OC\ HR537. V. Page Section 111 Multiyear Procurement Authority for AH 64E Apache Helicopters .. 44. Section 112 Multiyear Procurement Authority for UH 60M and HH . 60M Black Hawk Helicopters.