S.Amdt. 4666

SA 4666. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself, Mr. King, and Ms. Hirono)
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 PROGRAMMING AND BUDGETING FOR THE
PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE.

(a) Briefing.--Not later than 60 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 processes and guidance used to program and budget for the
Pacific Deterrence Initiative, including--
(1) the allocation of fiscal toplines in the program
objective memorandum process to support the Pacific
Deterrence Initiative at the outset of the process;
(2) the role of the combatant commanders in setting
requirements for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative;
(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 the Pacific Deterrence 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 and guidance used to
program and budget the Pacific Deterrence Initiative align,
as appropriate, with the processes and guidance used to
program and budget for 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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