LIVE-FIRE SURVIVABILITY TESTING OF C–17 AIRCRAFT.

SEC. 132. LIVE-FIRE SURVIVABILITY TESTING OF C–17 AIRCRAFT. (a) Applicability of Existing Law.—The C–17 transport aircraft shall be considered to be a covered system for purposes of 106 STAT. 2335survivability testing under section 2366 of title 10, United States Code. (b) Authority for Retroactive Waiver.—The Secretary of Defense may exercise the waiver authority in subsection (c) of such section with respect to the application of the survivability tests of that section to the C–17 transport aircraft notwithstanding that such program has entered full-scale engineering development. (c) Report Requirement.—If the Secretary of Defense submits a certification under subsection (c) of such section that live-fire testing of the C–17 system under such section would be unreasonably expensive or impractical, the Secretary of Defense shall require that sufficiently large and realistic components and subsystems that could affect the survivability of the C–17 system be made available for any alternative live-fire test program. (d) Funding.—The funds required to carry out any alternative live-fire testing program for the C–17 aircraft system shall be made available from amounts appropriated for the C–17 program for fiscal year 1993.