S.Amdt. 626

SA 626. Mr. SANDERS 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. REPORT ON DEFENSE CONTRACTING FRAUD.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
defense contracting fraud.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include the following elements:
(1) A summary of fraud-related criminal convictions and
civil judgements or settlements over the previous five fiscal
years.
(2) A listing of contractors that within the previous five
fiscal years performed contracts for the Department of
Defense and were debarred or suspended from Federal
contracting based on a criminal conviction for fraud.
(3) An assessment of the total value of Department of
Defense contracts entered into during the previous five
fiscal years with contractors that have been indicted for,
settled charges of, been fined by any Federal department or
agency for, or been convicted of fraud in connection with any
contract or other transaction entered into with the Federal
Government.
(4) Recommendations by the Inspector General of the
Department of Defense or other appropriate Department of
Defense official regarding how to penalize contractors
repeatedly involved in fraud in connection with contracts or
other transactions entered into with the Federal Government,
including an update on implementation by the Department of
any previous such recommendations.
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