S.Amdt. 851

SA 851. Mrs. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Durbin, and Ms.
Duckworth) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 III, add the following:

SEC. __. GUIDANCE REGARDING USE OF ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL BASE.

The Secretary of the Army shall maintain the arsenals with
sufficient workloads to ensure affordability and technical
competence in all critical capability areas by establishing,
not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act,
clear, step-by-step, prescriptive guidance on the process for
conducting make-or-buy analyses, including the use of the
organic industrial base.
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