S.Amdt. 4622

SA 4622. Mr. YOUNG 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 A of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1004. BRIEFING ASSESSING THE FEASIBILITY OF DELAYING
DELIVERY OF BUDGET DETAILS FOR A CERTAIN SUBSET
OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET.

(a) In General.--Not later than June 1, 2022, the Deputy
Secretary of Defense shall deliver a briefing to the
congressional defense committees regarding the feasibility of
establishing a $50,000,000 to $150,000,000 line item in the
Department of Defense budget for which programmatic and
budgetary details would be delivered one to five months after
the delivery of the president's annual budget to Congress.
(b) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (a)
should include--
(1) an assessment of potential changes needed to the
Program Objective Memorandum (POM) process to implement the
approach described in such subsection;
(2) recommended changes or improvements to the POM process
needed to enable additional congressional oversight of such
an approach; and
(3) a survey of projects that might have been included in
the President's budget earlier than they otherwise were as a
result of such an approach.
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