S.Amdt. 2543

SA 2543. Mr. DONNELLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr.
McCain) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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. 864. PILOT PROGRAM TO DEVELOP INDUSTRIAL BASE PLANS AND
PROJECTIONS FOR MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION
PROGRAMS.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, working through
the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and
Sustainment, and in coordination with the Secretaries of the
military departments, shall establish a pilot program to
develop industrial base plans and projections for elements of
the defense industrial bases that support selected major
defense acquisition programs.
(b) Designation of MDAPs.--The Secretary of Defense shall
designate not less than two major defense acquisition
programs for each military department to participate in the
pilot program. Not less than two of the programs designated
shall be software-intensive systems.
(c) Information Repository.--
(1) In general.--For each major defense acquisition program
designated to participate in the pilot program, the Secretary
concerned, in coordination with the Under Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, shall develop an
information repository that includes information on--
(A) primary and subtier suppliers of major and critical
components, technologies, and services supporting the
program;
(B) the location of each supplier, as well as the location
of any supplier facilities supporting the program that are
located outside of the United States;
(C) the ability of each supplier to support the
requirements of the program over the future-years defense
program and the next 10 years;
(D) for each supplier or supplier facility as referenced in
subsection (b)(1)(B) that is not located in Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, or the United Kingdom, an assessment of the
time and cost associated with securing an alternative
domestic source of supply should the need arise;
(E) critical shortfalls in specific elements of the
program's supporting industrial base; and
(F) other information as deemed appropriate by the Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment.
(2) Use of repository.--The Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment and other appropriate officials
shall use the repositories established under paragraph (1) to
assess critical shortfalls and dependence on industrial base
capabilities that affect multiple programs, including
programs not participating in the pilot program under this
section.
(d) Annual Report.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report on activities under the pilot
program, including--
(1) identification of programs participating in the pilot;
(2) a description of the information repository and
analysis tools being used to support the program;
(3) a description of industrial base shortfalls identified
in the pilot program; and
(4) a description of the overseas locations identified
under subsection (c)(1)(B), and an assessment of industrial
base risks associated with those locations over the future-
years defense program and the next 10 years.
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