S.Amdt. 2039

SA 2039. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Baldwin, and
Mr. Franken) 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 884. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ROLE OF CHIEF INFORMATION
OFFICER IN RESOURCES, PLANNING, AND PORTFOLIO
MANAGEMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, in
applying the implementation guidance for section 11319 of
title 40, United States Code (M-15-14, dated June 10, 2015),
the Department of Energy and the Office of Management and
Budget should work collaboratively to--
(1) ensure the unique issues associated with the Department
of Energy's High Performance Computing (HPC) program are
given appropriate consideration;
(2) avoid unnecessarily duplicating the Department of
Energy's existing project management processes for the HPC
program; and
(3) avoid creating any unnecessary layers of approval that
may impede the Department of Energy's deployment of mission-
critical HPC systems.
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