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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 1960 (Reported in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for militar... · Sec. 254

Sec. 254. Report on powered rail system

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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the powered rail system compared to currently fielded solutions. Such report shall include each of the following: Verification of relevant studies previously conducted by the Army, including that of the Maneuver Center of Excellence, which show that a typical infantry platoon requires approximately 430 pounds of batteries for a 72-hour mission, or roughly 10 pounds per soldier, and that the per-soldier, per-year procurement, storage, transport and disposal costs of these batteries are between $50,000 and $65,000.
An assessment of the comparative total cost of ownership, including procurement, fielding, training, and sustainment of the existing rail system and associated rail-mounted devices with respect to battery types and usage, when compared to that of a powered rail or intelligent rail system with a consolidated power source. An assessment of the specific effects of excessive battery weight on soldier mobility, endurance and lethality determined through side-by-side time, endurance, motion and lethality tests between soldiers operating with existing rail-mounted weapon accessories and soldiers using the powered rail or intelligent rail solution.
An assessment of the advantages to the Army of incorporating the high-speed communications capability embedded in the powered rail or intelligent rail technology, including the integration of existing Army devices and devices in development such as the family of weapons sights and the enhanced night vision goggles, with the powered rail technology, and the connection of these previously unconnected devices to the soldier network. Any testing conducted in order to produce the report required by subsection
(a)shall be supervised and validated by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense.
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