S.Amdt. 821

SA 821. Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr. Donnelly) 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 D of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1641. REPORT ON INTEGRATION OF MODERNIZATION AND
SUSTAINMENT OF NUCLEAR TRIAD.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump issued a
Presidential Memorandum on Rebuilding the United States Armed
Forces, which emphasized the need for a ``modern, robust,
flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored''
nuclear deterrent.
(2) On January 31, 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis
issued a memorandum entitled ``Implementation Guidance for
Budget Directives in the National Security Presidential
Memorandum on Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces'', which
called for ``an ambitious reform agenda, which will include
horizontal integration across DoD components to improve
efficiency and take advantage of economies of scale''.
(b) Report Required.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (or a successor in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense with responsibility for
acquisition programs), in coordination with the Secretary of
the Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force, shall submit to
the congressional defense committees a report on the
potential to achieve greater efficiency by integrating
elements of acquisition programs related to the modernization
and sustainment of the nuclear triad.
(2) Elements.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall,
at a minimum--
(A) identify any opportunities for improved efficiency in
program management, cost, and schedule to be created by
increasing integration, co-location, and commonality between
the strategic deterrent programs and their systems,
subsystems, technologies, and engineering processes; and
(B) identify any risks to program management, cost, and
schedule, as well as mission and capability, created by the
opportunities identified under subparagraph (A).
(3) Form.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be
submitted in classified form, but with an unclassified
summary.
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