S.Amdt. 330

SA 330. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 C of title III, add the following:

SEC. 333. SENSE OF SENATE ON PRIORITIZING SURVIVABLE
LOGISTICS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) resilient and agile logistics are necessary to
implement the 2018 National Defense Strategy because it
enables the United States to project power and sustain the
fight against its strategic competitors in peacetime and
during war;
(2) the joint logistics enterprise of the Armed Forces of
the United States faces high-end threats from strategic
competitors China, Russia, and Iran, all of whom have
invested in anti-access area denial capabilities and gray
zone tactics;
(3) there are significant logistics shortfalls, as outlined
in the November 2018 final report of the Defense Science
Board (DSB) Task Force on Survivable Logistics, which, if
left unaddressed, would hamper the readiness and ability of
the Armed Forces of the United States to conduct operations
globally;
(4) the military departments have not shown a strong
commitment to funding logistics, for example--
(A) the Army and the Air Force, excluding the reserve
components, requested $76,000,000 and $25,000,000 less,
respectively, for logistics between fiscal year 2019 and
fiscal year 2020;
(B) since fiscal year 2018, there has been neither a line
item request for the National Defense Sealift Fund nor a
request to increase more prepositioning or surge ships; and
(C) the Marine Corps only asked for $5,000,000 more in
procurement of commercial cargo vehicles for fiscal year
2020; and
(5) the Secretary of Defense should enact the full list of
recommendations listed in the November 2018 final report of
the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Survivable
Logistics and, particularly, the Secretary should address the
chronic underfunding of logistics relative to other
priorities of the Department of Defense.
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