S.Amdt. 4460

SA 4460. Mr. MANCHIN 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 F of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 877. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON SOLID ROCKET MOTOR
(SRM) INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR TACTICAL MISSILES.

(a) In General.--Not later than March 31, 2017, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the solid rocket
motor (SRM) industrial base for tactical missiles.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include the following elements:

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(1) A review of all Department of Defense reports that have
been published since 2009 on the United States tactical solid
rocket motor (SRM) industrial base, together with the
analyses underlying such reports.
(2) An examination of the factors the Department uses in
awarding SRM contracts and that Department of Defense
contractors use in awarding SRM subcontracts, including cost,
schedule, technical qualifications, supply chain
diversification, past performance, and other evaluation
factors, such as meeting offset obligations under foreign
military sales agreements.
(3) An assessment of the foreign-built portion of the
United States SRM market and of the effectiveness of actions
taken by the Department to address the declining state of the
United States tactical SRM industrial base.
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