To devolve acquisition authority from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the military services.

SA 1039. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1003 proposed by Mr. McCain (for himself and Mr. Reed) to
the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018
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 C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. __. ROLE OF THE CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCE IN MATERIAL
DEVELOPMENT DECISION AND ACQUISITION SYSTEM
MILESTONES.

Section 2547(b) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``(1) The
Secretary''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
``(2) Consistent with the performance of duties under
subsection (a), the Chief of the armed force concerned, with
respect to major defense acquisition programs, shall--
``(A) concur with the need for a material solution as
identified in the Material Development Decision Review prior
to entry into the Material Solution Analysis Phase under
Department of Defense Instruction 5000.02;
``(B) concur with the cost, schedule, technical
feasibility, and performance trade-offs that have been made
with regard to the program before Milestone A approval is
granted under section 2366a of this title;

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``(C) concur that appropriate trade-offs among cost,
schedule, technical feasibility, and performance objectives
have been made to ensure that the program is affordable when
considering the per unit cost and the total life-cycle cost
before Milestone B approval is granted under section 2366b of
this title; and
``(D) concur that the requirements in the program
capability document are necessary and realistic in relation
to program cost and fielding targets as required by paragraph
(1) before Milestone C approval is granted.''.
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