S.Amdt. 2106

SA 2106. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 XII, add the following:

SEC. 1216. IMPROVEMENTS TO SECURITY COOPERATION INFORMATION
PORTAL.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
take steps--
(1) to review the Security Cooperation Information Portal
(in this section referred to as ``SCIP''); and
(2) to improve stakeholder access to, and data completeness
and software functionality of, SCIP.
(b) Requirements.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary shall ensure that--
(1) the functionality and software of SCIP adequately
support the purpose of SCIP to reflect, accurately an in real
time, the status of individual foreign military sales cases
within the foreign military sales process;
(2) SCIP--
(A) includes data that allows users to track the progress
of all major milestones of a foreign military sales case;
(B) may be accessed by--
(i) relevant officials of the Department of State,
including personnel of the Bureau of Political-Military
Affairs and United States missions in foreign countries; and
(ii) relevant officials of the Department of Defense,
including--

(I) Defense Security Cooperation Agency personnel;
(II) acquisitions personnel of the Program Executive
Offices;
(III) acquisition program managers;
(IV) relevant contracting officers;
(V) personnel of the combatant commands;
(VI) United States security cooperation organization
personnel; and
(VII) defense attaches stationed at United States missions
in foreign countries; and

(C) is equipped with a capability by which personnel
described in subparagraph (B) may effectively input and
access relevant information and data; and
(3) any other improvement the Secretary considers necessary
to enhance the overall effectiveness and usefulness of SCIP
is timely implemented.
(c) Report and Briefing.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a
report and provide a briefing to the appropriate committees
of Congress on the steps taken under subsections (a) and (b)
to review and improve SCIP.
(2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the
Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the
House of Representatives.
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