S.Amdt. 1849

SA 1849. Mr. BURR (for himself and Mr. Tillis) 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:

At the end of subtitle D of title III, add the following:

SEC. 344. REPORT ON USE OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT
FOR MAINTENANCE FOR WHEELED VEHICLE AND TRACKED
VEHICLE FLEETS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a report setting
forth an assessment of the use of commercially available
equipment to conduct organizational maintenance and combined
support maintenance for the wheeled vehicle and tracked
vehicle fleets of the National Guard. The report shall
include the following:
(1) An assessment of the use of such equipment for such
maintenance on the operational readiness rates of such
fleets.
(2) A comparison of the cost of the use of such equipment
for such maintenance with the current cost of such
maintenance.
(3) An assessment of the extent to which the use of such
equipment is viable at the State level to reduce maintenance
costs and duration to improve readiness of the fleets.
(4) Such other matters, and such recommendations, as the
Chief of the National Guard Bureau considers appropriate.
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