To require the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to Congress a report on maintenance of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft fleet.

SA 3940. Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Mr. Isakson) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A,
insert the following:
Sec. ___.  Not later than January 31, 2019, the Comptroller
General of the United States shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report--
(1) comparing the cost expenditures of organic industrial
depot maintenance of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target
Attack Radar System aircraft fleet versus contracted or non-
organic maintenance; and
(2) comparing the cost variance and cost savings of
different programmed depot maintenance cycles or procedures
for the E-8C, including comparisons to such other platforms
as the Comptroller General considers appropriate.
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