S.Amdt. 4146

SA 4146. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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 I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. OMB DIRECTIVE ON MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE LICENSES.

(a) Definition.--In this section--
(1) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget; and
(2) the term ``executive agency'' has the meaning given
that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.
(b) OMB Directive.--The Director shall issue a directive to
require each executive agency to develop a comprehensive
software licensing policy, which shall--
(1) identify clear roles, responsibilities, and central
oversight authority within the executive agency for managing
enterprise software license agreements and commercial
software licenses; and
(2) require the executive agency to--
(A) establish a comprehensive inventory, including 80
percent of software license

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spending and enterprise licenses in the executive agency, by
identifying and collecting information about software license
agreements using automated discovery and inventory tools;
(B) regularly track and maintain software licenses to
assist the executive agency in implementing decisions
throughout the software license management life cycle;
(C) analyze software usage and other data to make cost-
effective decisions;
(D) provide training relevant to software license
management;
(E) establish goals and objectives of the software license
management program of the executive agency; and
(F) consider the software license management life cycle
phases, including the requisition, reception, deployment and
maintenance, retirement, and disposal phases, to implement
effective decision making and incorporate existing standards,
processes, and metrics.
(c) Report on Software License Management.--
(1) In general.--Beginning in the first fiscal year
beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, and in
each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 2018, each
executive agency shall submit to the Director a report on the
financial savings or avoidance of spending that resulted from
improved software license management.
(2) Availability.--The Director shall make each report
submitted under paragraph (1) publically available.
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