To require the Secretary of Defense to report on all information with respect to the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program that would be required if the program were designated as a major defense acquisition program not in the sustainment phase.

This amendment's own text couldn't be picked out of its Congressional Record passage, so the passage is shown in full.

SA 1071. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1867, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2012 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 follow:

       At the end of subtitle E of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 889. OVERSIGHT OF AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS WITH
                   RESPECT TO EVOLVED EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE
                   PROGRAM.

       The Secretary of Defense shall--
       (1) redesignate the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
     program as a major defense acquisition program not in the
     sustainment phase under section 2430 of title 10, United
     States Code; or
       (2) require the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program--
       (A) to provide to the congressional defense committees all
     information with respect to the cost, schedule, and
     performance of the program that would be required to be
     provided under sections 2431 (relating to weapons development
     and procurement schedules), 2432 (relating to Select
     Acquisition Reports, including updated program life-cycle
     cost estimates), and 2433 (relating to unit cost reports) of
     title 10, United States Code, with respect to the program if
     the program were designated as a major defense acquisition
     program not in the sustainment phase; and
       (B) to provide to the Under Secretary of Defense for
     Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics--
       (i) a quarterly cost and status report, commonly known as a
     Defense Acquisition Executive Summary, which serves as an
     early-warning of actual and potential problems with a program
     and provides for possible mitigation plans; and
       (ii) earned value management data that contains
     measurements of contractor technical, schedule, and cost
     performance.
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