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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1915 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out activities relating to 
the research, development, test, and evaluation and procurement of the 
David’s Sling weapons program, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2015 
Mr. KILMER (for himself and Mr. BRIDENSTINE) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out activities 
relating to the research, development, test, and evalua-
tion and procurement of the David’s Sling weapons pro-
gram, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘David’s Sling Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Israel is threatened by missiles and rockets 
from adversaries in the region. 
(2) Over the past several years, with the assist-
ance of the governments of the Islamic Republic of 
Iran and Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas have in-
creased their stockpile of rockets and missiles, which 
are ready to be fired at Israel. The Lebanon conflict 
in 2006 proved that Large Caliber Artillery Rockets 
(LCARs) and Short Range Ballistic Missiles 
(SRBMs) have become an immediate mortal threat 
to the Israeli civilian population and are in the pos-
session of Hezbollah and Syria. 
(3) In 2014, Hezbollah took possession of ad-
vanced guided-missile systems from Syria, rep-
resenting a major upgrade from the tens of thou-
sands unguided rockets in Hezbollah’s possession. 
(4) Hamas militants recently acquired long- 
range M–302 rockets and fired them deeper into 
Israel than they ever had before. 
(5) In 2008, the United States and Israel 
signed a project agreement to co-develop the David’s 
Sling system. 
(6) The David’s Sling system will provide Israel 
an effective and affordable defense against the 
threat of LCAR, Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBM) 
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and against the emerging Cruise Missile and similar 
representative threats, currently proliferating in the 
region. 
(7) Israeli Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) 
multi-tier architecture is comprised of the Upper 
Tier (Arrow Weapon System with Arrow 2 and 
Arrow 3 interceptors) and Lower Tier (David’s Sling 
and Iron Dome systems). Arrow 2 and Iron Dome 
are operational, while David’s Sling is expected to 
reach its initial operational capability shortly, fol-
lowed by Arrow 3 in near future. 
(8) Each system is designed to optimally en-
counter its own range of threats, with a limited 
planned overlap between them. David’s Sling is de-
signed to provide a regionally versatile defense in a 
range between Iron Dome and Arrow 2 systems. 
(9) The missile and rocket threat to Israel is 
immediate. Rapid development and deployment of 
the David’s Sling system is crucial to provide an en-
hanced defense to the State of Israel and its people. 
(10) The fiscal year 2016 requirement for 
maintaining the cost and schedule for the Arrow II, 
Arrow III, David’s Sling, and Iron Dome programs 
is $475,200,000 to support research, testing, devel-
opment, and procurement of these systems. 
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(11) Of the $475,200,000, $136,900,000 is re-
quired in fiscal year 2016 for completion of research 
and development and $150,000,000 is required for 
the procurement of David’s Sling system compo-
nents. 
(12) The United States-Israel Enhanced Secu-
rity Cooperation Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–150) 
reaffirmed the commitment of the United States to 
the security of Israel as a Jewish State and to assist 
in the defense of Israel and to protect United States 
interests. 
(13) The United States-Israel Strategic Part-
nership Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–296) des-
ignated Israel as a Major Strategic Partner of the 
United States. 
SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF DAVID’S 
SLING WEAPONS PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Defense may 
carry out activities relating to the research, development, 
test, and evaluation and procurement of the David’s Sling 
weapons program. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In addi-
tion to amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated 
for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2016, to 
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carry out this section there is authorized to be appro-
priated for fiscal year 2016— 
(1) 
for 
procurement, 
Defense-wide, 
$150,000,000; and 
(2) for research, development, test, and evalua-
tion, Defense-wide, $136,900,000. 
(c) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON COPRODUCTION.—It is 
the Sense of Congress that— 
(1) the United States and the Government of 
Israel should enter into a production agreement that 
specifies the terms of coproduction, program sched-
ule, and an itemization of costs with respect to the 
David’s Sling weapons program production activi-
ties; 
(2) such production agreement should strive for 
coproduction of the David’s Sling components to the 
most optimal level and schedule; and 
(3) reaching such a bilateral production agree-
ment, to include funds disbursement policy, should 
be a priority, as has been done in other missile de-
fense programs. 
Æ 
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