To provide for sustainment enhancement.

SA 1811. Mr. HATCH (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr.
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2016 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:

On page 375, line 4, insert ``, which includes a
sustainment strategy,'' after ``strategy''.
On page 377, line 13, strike ``(d) In this section'' and
insert the following:
``(9) A sustainment strategy which includes all aspects of
the total life cycle management of the weapon system,
including product support, logistics, product support
engineering, supply chain integration, maintenance,
acquisition logistics, and all aspects of software
sustainment.
``(d) Independent Cost Estimate.--The Director of Cost
Analysis and Program Evaluation shall perform an evaluation
of the sustainment portion of the acquisition strategy
required by subsection (c)(9) prior to the Milestone B
decision.
``(e) In this section
On page 410, after line 21, add the following:

SEC. 852. SUSTAINMENT ENHANCEMENT.

(a) Assessment Expansion of Functions of Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness to
Include Sustainment Functions.--Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a report setting forth an assessment of the feasibility and
advisability of--
(1) assigning to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Logistics and Materiel Readiness--
(A) functions relating to the sustainment strategy required
under section 2431a(c)(9) of Title 10, United States Code, as
added by section 841 of this Act; and
(B) functions relating to manufacturing and industrial base
policy currently being carried out within the Office of the
Secretary of Defense; and
(2) redesignating such Assistant Secretary (with such
functions so assigned and together with the current logistics
and material readiness functions of such Assistant Secretary)
as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that --
(1) the Department of Defense does not place sufficient
emphasis on sustainment of a weapon system during the entire
acquisition process; and
(2) the Department of Defense should address this
deficiency and ensure that all aspect of weapon system
sustainment are carefully considered throughout the entire
Integrated Defense Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
Life Cycle Management System.
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