S.Amdt. 4526

SA 4526. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 E of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1253. BRIEFING ON SYNCHRONIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF
PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE AND EUROPEAN
DETERRENCE INITIATIVE.

(a) Briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary of Defense
shall provide to the congressional defense committees a
briefing on the synchronization of the processes used to
implement the Pacific Deterrence Initiative with the
processes used to implement the European Deterrence
Initiative, including--
(1) the allocation of fiscal toplines in the program
objective memorandum process to

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support such initiatives at the outset of process;
(2) the role of the combatant commanders in setting
requirements for such initiatives;
(3) the role of the military departments and other
components of the Armed Forces in proposing programmatic
options to meet such requirements; and
(4) the role of the combatant commanders, the military
departments and other components of the Armed Forces, the
Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office, and the Deputy
Secretary of Defense in adjudicating requirements and
programmatic options--
(A) before the submission of the program objective
memorandum for each such initiative; and
(B) during program review.
(b) Guidance.--In establishing program objective memorandum
guidance for fiscal year 2024, the Deputy Secretary of
Defense shall ensure that the processes used to implement the
Pacific Deterrence Initiative align with the processes used
to implement the European Deterrence Initiative, including
through the allocation of fiscal toplines for each such
initiative in the fiscal year 2024 process.
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