S.Amdt. 2658

SA 2658. Mr. SANDERS 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 VIII, add the following:

SEC. 834. REPORT ON COST CHANGES IN MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION
PROGRAMS.

(a) Report Required.--The Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit to the congressional
defense committees and the Committees on the Budget of the
Senate and the House of Representatives an annual report on
total acquisition cost estimate changes in the major defense
acquisition programs of the Department of Defense, as
measured from each individual program's first full estimate.
(b) Information To Be Included.--The report required under
subsection (a) shall include--
(1) a listing of all major defense acquisition programs for
the previous quarter ending December 31;
(2) identification of the total acquisition cost estimates
for each program identified in paragraph (1) for the previous
quarter ending December 31;
(3) identification of the first full estimate of total
acquisition cost for each program identified in paragraph
(1); and
(4) a calculation of the total acquisition cost-estimate
change, both in terms of dollars and percentage of total,
since the first full estimate for each program identified in
paragraph (1) for the previous quarter ending December 31.
(c) Other Requirements.--The report required under
subsection (a) shall present all cost information in constant
year dollars to correspond with the year in which the report
is submitted.
(d) Definitions.--
(1) The term ``total acquisition cost estimate'' means a
program's estimated total expenditure of research,
development, test, and evaluation; procurement; acquisition-
related operations and maintenance; and system-specific
military construction funds.
(2) The term ``first full estimate of total acquisition
cost'' means a program's first total acquisition cost
estimate set in an acquisition program baseline, in
accordance with section 2435 of title 10, United States Code.
For a development program, the first full estimate is either
the program's planning estimate, if one was established, or
the development estimate established at the time of Milestone
B approval (as that term is defined in section 2366(e) of
title 10, United States Code), whichever estimate occurred
first. For programs that entered the acquisition cycle, or
became major defense acquisition programs, at the time of
Milestone C approval (as that term is defined in section
2366(e) of title 10, United States Code), the production
estimate would be the first full estimate.
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