S.Amdt. 1392

SA 1392. Mr. SANDERS 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 follows:

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

SEC. 827. ADEQUACY OF CONTRACTING OFFICER REPRESENTATIVES FOR OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS.

(a) Adequate Contracting Officer Representatives.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Department of Defense has a number of contracting officer representatives assigned to overseas contingency operations that is sufficient to provide proper oversight of government contracts and to protect against waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracts.

(b) Reports.--Not later than March 1 of each of 2013, 2014, and 2015, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report assessing the extent to which the number of contracting officer representatives assigned to overseas continency operations during the preceding calendar year was sufficient to provide proper oversight of government contracts and to protect against waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracts.