S.Amdt. 2128

SA 2128. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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 A of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1003. UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) REPORTS
ON IMPROVING THE BUDGET JUSTIFICATION AND
RELATED MATERIALS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) Reports Required.--Not later than April 1 of each of
2021 through 2025, the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on improving the following:
(1) Modernization of covered materials, including the
following:
(A) Updating the format of such materials in order to
account for significant improvements in document management
and data visualization.
(B) Expanding the scope and quality of data included in
such materials.
(2) Streamlining of the production of covered materials
within the Department of Defense.
(3) Transmission of covered materials to Congress.
(4) Availability of adequate resources and capabilities to
permit the Department to integrate changes to covered
materials together with its submittal of current covered
materials.
(5) Promotion of the flow between the Department and the
congressional defense committees of other information
required by Congress for its oversight of budgeting for the
Department and the future-years defense programs.
(b) Covered Materials Defined.--In this section, the term
``covered materials'' means the following:
(1) Materials submitted in support of the budget of the
President for a fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title
31, United States Code.
(2) Materials submitted in connection with the future-years
defense program for a fiscal year under section 221 of title
10, United States Code.
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