S.Amdt. 2598

SA 2598. Mr. CRUZ 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 C of title III, add the following:

SEC. 323. REPORT ON DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, in
consultation with the Chief of Staff of the Army, shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
labor hours and depot maintenance.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include the following elements:
(1) An estimate of the amount of public and private funding
of depot-level maintenance and repair (as defined in section
2460 of title 10, United State Code) for the Department of
the Army, and any other command identified by the Secretary,
expressed by commodity group by percentage and actual numbers
in terms of dollars and direct labor hours.
(2) Within each category of depot level maintenance and
repair for each entities, the amount of the subset of depot
maintenance workload that meets the description under section
2464 of title 10, United States Code, that is performed in
the public and private sectors by direct labor hours and by
dollars.
(3) Of the subset referred to in paragraph (2), the amount
of depot maintenance workload performed in the public and
private sector by direct labor hour and by dollars for each
entity that would otherwise be considered core workload under
section 2462 of title 10, United States Code, but is not
considered core because a weapon system or equipment has not
been declared a program of record.
(4) An identification and description of depot level
maintenance and repair workload occurring at each
installation that is outside of the scope of what has been
identified by the Secretary of the Army as a Center of
Industrial and Technical Excellence under section 2474 of
title 10, United States Code, and an assessment whether that
workload should be occurring at another installation under
such section.
(5) The projections for the upcoming future years defense
program.
(6) A business case analysis on incorporating the depot-
level maintenance and repair requirements of the Department
of Homeland Security and other Federal agencies into the
organic industrial base.
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