S.Amdt. 1071

SA 1071. Mr. STRANGE 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 E of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1656. REVIEW OF PROPOSED GROUND-BASED MIDCOURSE DEFENSE
SYSTEM CONTRACT.

(a) Limitation on Changes to Contracting Strategy.--The
Director of the Missile Defense Agency may not change the
contracting strategy for the systems integration, operations,
and test of the ground-based midcourse defense system until
the date on which--
(1) the report under subsection (b)(4) is submitted to the
congressional defense committees; and
(2) a period of 30 days has elapsed following the date of
such submittal.
(b) Review.--
(1) In general.--The Director of Cost Assessment and
Program Evaluation shall conduct a review of the contract for
the systems integration, operations, and test of the ground-
based midcourse defense system.
(2) Elements.--The review required by paragraph (1) shall
include the following:
(A) Contract performance of current industry-led prime
contract approach, including with respect to--
(i) system readiness performance and reliability growth;
(ii) development, integration, and fielding of new homeland
defense capabilities; and
(iii) cost performance against baseline contract.
(B) With respect to alternate contracting approaches--
(i) an enumeration and detailing of any specific benefits
for each such alternate approach;
(ii) an identification of specific costs to switching to
each such alternate approach; and
(iii) detailing of the specific risks of each such
alternate approach to homeland defense, including regarding
schedule, costs, and the sustainment, maintenance,
development, and fielding, of integrated capabilities.
(C) With respect to contracting approaches that transition
to Federal Government-led systems engineering integration and
test--
(i) an enumeration of the processes, procedures, and
command media that have been established by the Missile
Defense Agency and proven to be effective for the execution
of programs that are of the scale of the ground-based
midcourse defense system; and
(ii) the manner in which a new contract will control for
growth in the personnel and support contracts of the Federal
Government to support cost growth and minimize the risk of
schedule delay.

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(D) A baseline for historical and current staffing of the
ground-based midcourse defense system program, specifically
with respect to personnel of the Federal Government,
personnel of federally funded research and development
centers, personnel of departments and agencies of the Federal
Government, and support contractors.
(E) Projections of the staffing categories specified in
subparagraph (D) under a new contracting strategy and how
such staffing categories will be limited to prevent
significant cost growth and to minimize the risk of schedule
delays.
(F) The views and recommendations of the Director for any
changes the current ground-based midcourse defense system
contract or a new contract, including the proposed
contracting strategy of the Missile Defense Agency.
(G) Such other matters as the Director determines
appropriate.
(3) Transmission.--The Director of Cost Assessment and
Program Evaluation shall transmit to the Under Secretary of
Defense for Research and Engineering and the Missile Defense
Executive Board the findings of the Director with respect to
the review conducted under paragraph (1).
(4) Report.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which
the Under Secretary and the Missile Defense Executive Board
receive the findings of the Director under paragraph (3), the
Under Secretary and Board shall jointly submit to the
congressional defense committees a report containing--
(A) the findings of the Director transmitted under
paragraph (3), without change; and
(B) such views and recommendations of the Under Secretary
and the Board may have with respect to such findings or the
review conducted under paragraph (1).
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