S.Amdt. 390

SA 390. Mr. LANKFORD submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 appropriate place title X, insert the following:

SEC. ___. IMPROVING THE ANALYSIS AND REPORTING OF COST AND
UNIT-LEVEL READINESS IMPACTS OF SUPPORTING
SOUTHWEST BORDER OPERATIONS.

The Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) follows best practices for--
(A) completing well-documented cost estimates when
assessing the Department of Homeland Security's requests for
assistance (referred to in this sections as ``RFAs'') related
to the southwest border by documenting its estimated methods
for future RFAs; and
(B) credible estimates when assessing RFAs related to the
southwest border by completing a robust sensitivity analysis
of key cost drivers, a risk and uncertainty analysis, and
cross checks for future RFAs;
(2) ensure that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
in collaboration with the Secretaries of the military
departments, identifies--
(A) units likely to be sourced to support U.S. Customs and
Border Protection along the southwest border; and
(B) the potential unit-level readiness impacts of assigning
such units before the Secretary of Defense responds to
pending RFAs, when conditions permit;
(3) ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,
in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller), submits the annual reports required under
section 1014(d)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328) to the
congressional defense committees on time;
(4) ensure that the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) clarifies guidance to ensure that the military
services and the National Guard Bureau track all costs
associated with the Department of Defense's support to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection's border security mission,
including costs associated with installation support,
oversight of border construction projects, and National Guard
personnel benefits, and includes such costs in future reports
referred to in paragraph (3); and
(5) in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland
Security, develop a memorandum of understanding, which
shall--
(A) ensure that field operations of the Department of
Homeland Security are consistent with directives of the
Department of Homeland Security;
(B) define a common outcome for the Department of Defense's
support to the Department of Homeland Security, consistent
with best practices for interagency collaboration;
(C) ensure all RFAs clearly define the role of the
Department of Defense in an operation, including contingency
plans for circumstances in which the Department of Defense's
support may need to be increased or decreased; and
(D) articulate how such common outcome will enable the
Department of Homeland Security to achieve its southwest
border security mission; and
(6) annually submit to the Committees on Armed Services and
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and
the Committees on Armed Services and Homeland Security of the
House of Representatives a report on the costs incurred by
the Department of Defense in support of activities by the
Department of Homeland Security on the southwest border.
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