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  SA 2443. Ms. HEITKAMP submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 1197, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2014 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 G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1066. REPORT ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
       (B) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
     of the Senate;
       (C) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
       (D) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives;
       (E) the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of 
     the House of Representatives;
       (F) the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the 
     House of Representatives; and
       (G) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (2) The term ``UAS Executive Committee'' means the 
     Department of Defense-Federal Aviation Administration 
     executive committee described in section 1036(b) of the 
     Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417; 122 Stat. 4596) established by 
     the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the Federal 
     Aviation Administration.
       (b) Report on Collaboration, Demonstration, and Use Cases 
     and Data Sharing.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, the 
     Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of the Federal 
     Aviation Administration, and the Administrator of the 
     National Aeronautics and Space Administration, on behalf of 
     the UAS Executive Committee, shall jointly submit a report to 
     the appropriate congressional committees that describes the 
     following:
       (1) The collaboration, demonstrations, and initial fielding 
     of unmanned aircraft systems at test sites within and outside 
     of restricted airspace.
       (2) The progress being made to develop public and civil 
     sense-and-avoid and command-and-control technology, including 
     the human factors and other technological challenges 
     identified in the Integration of Civil Unmanned Aircraft 
     Systems in the National Airspace System Roadmap, published by 
     the Federal Aviation Administration on November 7, 2013 
     (referred to in this subsection as the ``NAS Roadmap''), and 
     what role the test sites can play in overcoming those 
     challenges.
       (3) An assessment on the sharing of operational, 
     programmatic, and research data relating to unmanned aircraft 
     systems operations by the Federal Aviation Administration, 
     the Department of Defense, and the National Aeronautics and 
     Space Administration to help the Federal Aviation 
     Administration establish civil unmanned aircraft systems 
     certification standards, pilot certification and licensing, 
     and air traffic control procedures, including identifying the 
     locations selected to collect, analyze, and store the data.
       (4) The strategy to improve the effectiveness of 
     government-industry collaboration between UAS Executive 
     Committee members and relevant stakeholders regarding 
     National Airspace System integration, and how the test sites 
     can be used to improve this collaboration.
       (5) An evaluation of how best to overcome the national 
     security challenges identified in the NAS Roadmap referred to 
     in paragraph (2).
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