NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL …

1 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES " ! 117 THCONGRESS 1st Session REPORT 117 ??? NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON 4350 together with ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] SEPTEMBER??, 2021. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICEWASHINGTON : 1 ?

2 ? ??? HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES " ! 117 THCONGRESS 1st Session REPORT 2021 117 ??? NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 R E P O R T OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON 4350 together with ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] SEPTEMBER??, 2021. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed (II) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ONEHUNDREDSEVENTEENTHCONGRESS ADAM SMITH, Washington, Chairman JAMES R.

3 LANGEVIN, Rhode Island RICK LARSEN, Washington JIM COOPER, Tennessee JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut JOHN GARAMENDI, California JACKIE SPEIER, California DONALD NORCROSS, New Jersey RUBEN GALLEGO, Arizona SETH MOULTON, Massachusetts SALUD O. CARBAJAL, California ANTHONY G. BROWN, Maryland, RO KHANNA, California WILLIAM R. KEATING, Massachusetts FILEMON VELA, Texas ANDY KIM, New Jersey CHRISSY HOULAHAN, Pennsylvania JASON CROW, Colorado ELISSA SLOTKIN, Michigan MIKIE SHERRILL, New Jersey VERONICA ESCOBAR, Texas JARED F. GOLDEN, Maine ELAINE G. LURIA, Virginia, Vice Chair JOSEPH D. MORELLE, New York SARA JACOBS, California KAIALI I KAHELE, Hawaii MARILYN STRICKLAND, Washington MARC A.

4 VEASEY, Texas JIMMY PANETTA, California STEPHANIE N. MURPHY, Florida STEVEN HORSFORD, Nevada MIKE ROGERS, Alabama JOE WILSON, South Carolina MICHAEL R. TURNER, Ohio DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia MO BROOKS, Alabama SAM GRAVES, Missouri ELISE M. STEFANIK, New York SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee TRENT KELLY, Mississippi MIKE GALLAGHER, Wisconsin MATT GAETZ, Florida DON BACON, Nebraska JIM BANKS, Indiana LIZ CHENEY, Wyoming JACK BERGMAN, Michigan MICHAEL WALTZ, Florida MIKE JOHNSON, Louisiana MARK E. GREEN, Tennessee STEPHANIE I. BICE, Oklahoma C. SCOTT FRANKLIN, Florida LISA C. MCCLAIN, Michigan RONNY JACKSON, Texas JERRY L.

5 CARL, Alabama BLAKE D. MOORE, Utah PAT FALLON, Texas PAULARCANGELI, Staff Director (III) C O N T E N T S Page Purpose of the Legislation .. 000 Rationale for the Committee Bill .. 000 Hearings .. 000 Committee Position .. 000 Explanation of the Committee Amendments .. 000 Relationship of AUTHORIZATION to Appropriations .. 000 Summary of Discretionary Authorizations in the Bill .. 000 Budget Authority Implication .. 000 DIVISION A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS .. 000 TITLE I PROCUREMENT .. 000 Aircraft Procurement, Army .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Assured Communications on Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems in Highly Contested Environments .. 000 Litter Load Stability Technology.

6 000 Missile Procurement, Army .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Extended Range Air DEFENSE .. 000 Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Armored plate technical performance specifications .. 000 M240 medium machine gun .. 000 Procurement of Ammunition, Army .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Conventional ammunition demilitarization .. 000 Medium caliber ammunition .. 000 Other Procurement, Army .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Army modular open systems architecture .. 000 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular .. 000 Firefighting equipment modernization .. 000 High frequency radio infrastructure .. 000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle rollover mitigation.

7 000 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Acquisition Strategy .. 000 Magazine acquisition for the Next Generation Squad Weapon .. 000 Rifle Integrated Controller .. 000 Soldier Enhancement Program .. 000 Synthetic Training Environment .. 000 Aircraft Procurement, Navy .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 CMV 22 .. 000 Nacelle Improvement .. 000 Naval adversary aircraft recapitalization .. 000 Navy tactical fighter aircraft force structure .. 000 P 8 aircraft .. 000 Survivability systems for Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force rotary- wing aircraft .. 000 T 45 Program Report .. 000 V 22 Nacelle Improvement Program .. 000 Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy .. 000 Items of Special Interest.

8 000 Aegis radar .. 000 Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of the Littoral Combat Ship Pro-gram .. 000 PageIV Astern refueling on Expeditionary Sea Based platforms .. 000 Comptroller General review of enabling technologies for unmanned systems .. 000 DDG 51 multiyear procurement .. 000 Improving Safe and Secure Cyber-Enabled Navy Vessels .. 000 NATIONAL Security Hospital Vessel .. 000 Report on large surface combatant production transition .. 000 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter .. 000 SPY 1D capability improvements .. 000 Virginia Class Submarine Spare Parts .. 000 Other Procurement, Navy .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Joint force tiltrotor training .. 000 Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Techniques.

9 000 Mine-hunting capabilities from Expeditionary Sea Base platforms .. 000 Tactical aircraft training telemetry system recapitalization .. 000 Underwater ranges .. 000 Procurement, Marine Corps .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 High Mobility Engineer Excavator .. 000 Aircraft Procurement, Air Force .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 A 10 Wing Replacement Program .. 000 A 10C Threat Warning System Modernization .. 000 Airlift tactical data link .. 000 Bridge Tanker .. 000 C 130H propellers/engines .. 000 Degraded visual environment system for Air Force combat search and rescue helicopter fleet .. 000 EC 37B Compass Call Replacement .. 000 HH 60W Combat Search and Rescue helicopter.

10 000 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System .. 000 KC 135 modernization .. 000 KC 135R Cooling Capability .. 000 MH 139 conversion .. 000 MH 139A Grey Wolf Aircrew Exposure Protection .. 000 Propeller blades .. 000 Survivable Airborne Operations Center .. 000 V 22 nacelle improvement program .. 000 Other Procurement, Air Force .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Bomber fleet hypersonic weapons integration .. 000 Commercial best practices .. 000 Standardization for Full Motion Video Dissemination .. 000 Transfer of Coast Guard HC 130H Aircraft to the State of California .. 000 Procurement, DEFENSE -Wide .. 000 Items of Special Interest .. 000 Comptroller General review of tactical fighter aircraft capacity short-falls and capability gaps.