S.Amdt. 4627

SA 4627. Mrs. MURRAY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her 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. COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES REPORT ON
THE AIR FORCE STRATEGIC BASING PROCESS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to the congressional defense
committees an interim report on the suitability and
effectiveness of the Air Force's strategic basing process,
with a final report to follow not later than 270 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) Elements.--The report under subsection (a) shall
include a description and assessment of each of the
following:
(1) Effectiveness and alignment of the strategic basing
process with Air Force strategy and objectives.
(2) Authoritativeness, transparency, consistency, and
auditability of the Air Force strategic basing process.
(3) Development of the criteria, basing objectives,
policies, programming, planning, and directives used for
determining the enterprise-wide review for potential basing
actions.
(4) Development of the criteria basing objectives,
policies, programming, planning, and directives used for
determining candidate bases for potential basing actions.
(5) Integration of risk management into the strategic
basing process and communication of risk to stakeholders and
Congress.
(6) The decision-making process to arrive at final
strategic basing decisions.
(7) Notification, method, timeliness, and transparency of
changes to criteria to stakeholders and Congress.
(8) Appropriateness and timeliness of notifications to
various stakeholders.
(9) Applicability to the other military departments and
Defense agencies.
(10) Other information determined to be appropriate by the
Comptroller General.
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