- Record: Senate Floor
- Section type: Amendments
- Chamber: Senate
- Date: June 24, 2026
- Congress: 119th Congress
- Why this source matters: This section came from the Senate floor portion of the record.
SA 6341. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 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. __. LIMITATION ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR THE
RETIREMENT OR DECOMMISSIONING OF CERTAIN
TACTICAL AND NAVAL RADAR SYSTEMS.
(a) Limitation.—None of the funds authorized to be
appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for
fiscal year 2027 for the Department of Defense or the
military departments may be obligated or expended to retire,
decommission, divest, or otherwise remove from active
operational service any of the radar systems specified in
subsection (b).
(b) Radar Systems Specified.—The radar systems specified
in this subsection are the following:
(1) The AN/SPN-43 shipboard air traffic control and air
marshaling radar system.
(2) The AN/SPY-1 phased-array radar system (Aegis Combat
System).
(3) The AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder counter-battery
radar systems.
(4) Airborne Station Keeping Equipment (SKE) radar systems,
including the AN/APN-243.
(c) Exception for Beyond-repair Systems.—The limitation in
subsection (a) shall not apply to individual units of the
radar systems specified in subsection (b) that the Secretary
of the military department concerned determines have been
damaged or degraded beyond economical repair.