S.Amdt. 2830

SA 2830. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr.
McCain) 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 I of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 896. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON SERVICE ACQUISITION REFORM.

It is the sense of Congress--
(1) that failure to expeditiously implement the
improvements required by section 2329 of title 10, United
States Code, is an opportunity cost to buying back the
readiness and modernizing the Department of Defense's
capabilities;
(2) that the Department's most recent contractor
inventories submitted to Congress on February 25, 2018,
included ``approximately 25 percent, or just under $42
billion, of the department's total $160 billion-plus spend
for contracted services'';
(3) that full accountability for the approximately
$160,000,000,000 spent annually on contract services is
required for good stewardship on behalf of the taxpayer
irrespective of whether these funds are expended through
prime or subcontract arrangements and irrespective of the
method of procurement used, whether as a commercial item or
service or any other means;
(4) to support full implementation of Future Year Defense
Program detail visibility of spending on contract services to
accompany the budget exhibit required by section 2329 of
title 10, United States Code; and
(5) to support Department of Defense efforts to coordinate
consistent and broad definitions of services contracts to
ensure full accountability for every dollar obligated and
expended with the full expectation that any future
clarifications of services contract definitions will not
reduce the scope of coverage of the $160,000,000,000
currently spent on contract services.
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