S.Amdt. 4328

SA 4328. Mr. UDALL 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 G of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1266. REPORT ON SECURITY COOPERATION PROGRAMS AND
ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
INTENDED TO BUILD PARTNER CAPACITY OF FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.

(a) Report Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit
to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the
security cooperation programs and activities of the
Department of Defense that are intended to build partner
capacity of foreign countries.
(b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An identification of each current security cooperation
program or activity of the

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Department of Defense that is intended to build partner
capacity of a foreign country.
(2) A description of the manner in which each program and
activity identified pursuant to paragraph (1) is intended to
build partner capacity of a foreign country.
(3) An assessment whether the programs and activities
identified pursuant to paragraph (1) have effectively
contributed to the accomplishment of strategic-level
objectives.
(c) Assessment.--In preparing the assessment of a program
or activity required pursuant to subsection (b)(3), the
Secretary shall do a comparative analysis of the short-term,
medium-term, and long-term effectiveness of the program or
activity from the perspective of the United States Government
and from the perspective of the government of the country
concerned.
(d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``appropriate
committees of Congress'' and ``security cooperation programs
and activities of the Department of Defense'' have the
meaning given those terms in section 301 of title 10, United
States Code, as added by section 1252 of this Act.
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