S.Amdt. 5613

SA 5613. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 D of title III, add the following:

SEC. 357. BRIEFING ON DEPOT MAINTENANCE.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness shall brief the congressional defense committees on the source of repair decision-making process of the Department of Defense for depots.

(b) Elements.--The briefing required under subsection (a) shall include--

(1) information on how costs and risks to readiness of the Armed Forces are being addressed in the process described in subsection (a);

(2) a timeline for decision making under such process; and

(3) an assessment of the objective balance of workload between the public and private sectors under such process.