NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR …

1 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES " ! 117 THCONGRESS 1st Session REPORT 117 118 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] SEPTEMBER10, 2021. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6012 Sfmt 6012 E:\HR\OC\ HR118congress.#13dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with HEARINGNATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 E:\HR\OC\ HR118dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICEWASHINGTON : 1 45 492 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES " !

2 117 THCONGRESS 1st Session REPORT 2021 117 118 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] SEPTEMBER10, 2021. Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4012 Sfmt 4012 E:\HR\OC\ HR118congress.#13dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with HEARING(II) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES ONEHUNDREDSEVENTEENTHCONGRESS ADAM SMITH, Washington, Chairman JAMES R. 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.

3 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. 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.

4 GREEN, Tennessee STEPHANIE I. BICE, Oklahoma C. SCOTT FRANKLIN, Florida LISA C. MCCLAIN, Michigan RONNY JACKSON, Texas JERRY L. CARL, Alabama BLAKE D. MOORE, Utah PAT FALLON, Texas PAULARCANGELI, Staff Director VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\ HR118dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with HEARING(III) C O N T E N T S Page Purpose of the Legislation ..1 Rationale for the Committee Bill ..2 Hearings ..2 Committee Position ..3 Explanation of the Committee Amendments ..3 Relationship of AUTHORIZATION to Appropriations ..3 Summary of Discretionary Authorizations in the Bill ..4 Budget Authority Implication ..4 DIVISION A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS ..5 TITLE I PROCUREMENT ..5 Aircraft Procurement, Army ..5 Items of Special Interest ..5 Assured Communications on Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems in Highly Contested Environments.

5 5 Litter Load Stability Technology ..5 Missile Procurement, Army ..6 Items of Special Interest ..6 Extended Range Air DEFENSE ..6 Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army ..6 Items of Special Interest ..6 Armored plate technical performance specifications ..6 M240 medium machine gun ..7 Procurement of Ammunition, Army ..7 Items of Special Interest ..7 Conventional ammunition demilitarization ..7 Medium caliber ammunition ..8 Other Procurement, Army ..8 Items of Special Interest ..8 Army modular open systems architecture ..8 Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular ..8 Firefighting equipment modernization ..9 High frequency radio infrastructure ..9 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle rollover mitigation ..10 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Acquisition Strategy ..10 Magazine acquisition for the Next Generation Squad Weapon ..11 Rifle Integrated Controller.

6 11 Soldier Enhancement Program ..11 Synthetic Training Environment ..12 Aircraft Procurement, Navy ..12 Items of Special Interest ..12 CMV 22 ..12 Nacelle Improvement ..12 Naval adversary aircraft recapitalization ..13 Navy tactical fighter aircraft force structure ..13 P 8 aircraft ..14 Survivability systems for Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force rotary- wing aircraft ..14 T 45 Program Report ..15 V 22 Nacelle Improvement Program ..15 Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy ..16 Items of Special Interest ..16 Aegis radar ..16 Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of the Littoral Combat Ship Pro-gram ..16 VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 6646 E:\HR\OC\ HR118dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with HEARINGPageIV Astern refueling on Expeditionary Sea Based platforms ..17 Comptroller General review of enabling technologies for unmanned systems.

7 18 DDG 51 multiyear procurement ..18 Improving Safe and Secure Cyber-Enabled Navy Vessels ..19 NATIONAL Security Hospital Vessel ..19 Report on large surface combatant production transition ..20 Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter ..21 SPY 1D capability improvements ..21 Virginia Class Submarine Spare Parts ..21 Other Procurement, Navy ..22 Items of Special Interest ..22 Joint force tiltrotor training ..22 Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Techniques ..23 Mine-hunting capabilities from Expeditionary Sea Base platforms ..23 Tactical aircraft training telemetry system recapitalization ..23 Underwater ranges ..24 Procurement, Marine Corps ..24 Items of Special Interest ..24 High Mobility Engineer Excavator ..24 Aircraft Procurement, Air Force ..25 Items of Special Interest ..25 A 10 Wing Replacement Program.

8 25 A 10C Threat Warning System Modernization ..25 Airlift tactical data link ..25 Bridge Tanker ..26 C 130H propellers/engines ..26 Degraded visual environment system for Air Force combat search and rescue helicopter fleet ..26 EC 37B Compass Call Replacement ..27 HH 60W Combat Search and Rescue helicopter ..28 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System ..28 KC 135 modernization ..28 KC 135R Cooling Capability ..29 MH 139 conversion ..29 MH 139A Grey Wolf Aircrew Exposure Protection ..30 Propeller blades ..30 Survivable Airborne Operations Center ..30 V 22 nacelle improvement program ..31 Other Procurement, Air Force ..31 Items of Special Interest ..31 Bomber fleet hypersonic weapons integration ..31 Commercial best practices ..32 Standardization for Full Motion Video Dissemination ..32 Transfer of Coast Guard HC 130H Aircraft to the State of California.

9 32 Procurement, DEFENSE -Wide ..33 Items of Special Interest ..33 Comptroller General review of tactical fighter aircraft capacity short-falls and capability gaps ..33 F 35 ..34 NATIONAL Guard and Reserve Equipment Account ..35 Persistent Airborne Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance ..35 Radio Integration System program upgrade ..36 Review of Armed Overwatch aircraft systems ..36 LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ..37 Subtitle A AUTHORIZATION of Appropriations ..37 Section 101 AUTHORIZATION of Appropriations ..37 Subtitle B Army Programs ..37 Section 111 Multiyear Procurement Authority for AH 64E Apache Helicopters ..37 Section 112 Multiyear Procurement Authority for UH 60M and HH 60M Black Hawk Helicopters ..37 Section 113 Continuation of Soldier Enhancement Program ..37 Section 114 Strategy for the Procurement of Accessories for the Next Generation Squad Weapon.

10 37 VerDate Sep 11 2014 18:43 Sep 11, 2021 Jkt 045492 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 6646 E:\HR\OC\ HR118dlhill on DSK120RN23 PROD with HEARINGPageV Subtitle C Navy Programs ..37 Section 121 Extension of Procurement Authority for Certain Amphib-ious Shipbuilding Programs ..37 Section 122 Inclusion of Basic and Functional Design in Assessments Required Prior to Start of Construction on First Ship of a Shipbuild-ing Program ..38 Section 123 Multiyear Procurement Authority for Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers ..38 Section 124 Incorporation of Advanced Degaussing Systems into DDG 51 Class Destroyers ..38 Subtitle D Air Force Programs ..38 Section 131 Contract for Logistics Support for VC 25B Aircraft ..38 Section 132 Limitation on Availability of Funds for the B 52 Commer-cial Engine Replacement Program ..38 Section 133 Inventory Requirements and Limitations Relating to Cer-tain Air Refueling Tanker Aircraft.