S.Amdt. 4638

SA 4638. Mr. KIRK (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mrs. Ernst, and Mr.
Durbin) 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 H of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 899C. STRATEGY ON REVITALIZING ARMY ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL
BASE.

(a) Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a strategy on
revitalizing the Army Organic Industrial Base (OIB). The
strategy should detail the Army's plan to ensure the long-
term viability of the Army's Organic Industrial Base.
(b) Elements.--The strategy required under subsection (a)
shall include at a minimum the following elements:
(1) An assessment of Army legacy items sustained by the
Defense Logistics Agency.
(2) A description of the use of the OIB to address
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages.
(3) Required critical capabilities across the OIB.
(4) An assessment of infrastructure across the OIB.
(5) An assessment of the OIB and private sector
manufacturing sources.
(6) A description of the use of contracting to meet the OIB
requirements.
(7) An assessment of current and future workloads across
the OIB.
(8) An assessment of processes used to identify critical
capabilities for the Army's OIB and methods used to determine
workloads.
(9) An assessment of exiting labor rates.
(10) A description of required manufacturing skills needed
to sustain readiness.
(11) A description of the use of private and public
partnerships.
(12) A description of the use of working capital funds.
(13) An assessment of operating expenses and the ability to
reduce or recover those expenses.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Legacy items.--The term ``legacy items'' means
manufactured items that are no longer produced by the private
sector but continue to be used for Department of Defense
weapons systems, excluding information technology and
information systems (as those terms are defined in section
11101 of title 40, United States Code).
(2) Organic industrial base.--The term ``organic industrial
base'' means United States military facilities, including
arsenals, depots, munition plants and centers, and storage
sites, that advance a vital national security interest by
producing, maintaining, repairing, and storing the necessary
materiel, munitions, and hardware.
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