S.Amdt. 462

SA 462. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Roberts) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2810, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 E of title X, add the following:

SEC. ___. ARMY MILITARY VALUE ANALYSIS MODEL.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following
(1) The Military Value Analysis model of the Army has been
a key determinant for the force structure and strategic
basing decisions of the Army in recent years.
(2) The Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the
House of Representatives have determined that a lack of
transparency regarding process, metrics, and scoring on the
matters covered by the Military Value Analysis model has made
proper oversight of the Army by Congress far more difficult.
(b) Limitation on Army Basing Decisions Pending Report on
Model.--The Secretary of the Army may not make any basing
decision with respect to the Army during the period beginning
on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the
date that is 60 days after the date on which the Secretary
submits the report required by subsection (c).
(c) Report on Updated Model.--
(1) Report required.--Not later than 120 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report
setting forth an update of the Military Value Analysis model
of the Army.
(2) Review.--The Secretary shall update the Military Value
Analysis model for purposes of the report required by
paragraph (1) following a review undertaken by the Secretary
for purposes of the update. The review and update shall
address and appropriately incorporate the following:
(A) Qualitative and quantitative criteria and sub-criteria
to be used for force structure and strategic basing
decisions, including quantitative and qualitative measures on
the average daily use of, and accessibility to, maneuver
training acreage.
(B) Deployment criteria using a measure of the time
required to deploy a unit of action from its home
installation to its deployment site, including the
transportation of unit personnel by military aircraft, and
transportation of the commonly defined set of unit equipment
to its designated out-port for deployment.
(d) Scoring Data for Force Structure and Major Basing
Decisions.--After making

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a force structure or major basing decision for the Army, the
Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report setting forth the scoring data
developed pursuant to the Military Value Analysis model of
the Army with respect to each military installation
considered for purposes of the decision.
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