[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4281 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4281

 To require a report to Congress on certain efforts in connection with 
     the financial management systems of the Department of Defense.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 22, 2020

 Mr. Grassley introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require a report to Congress on certain efforts in connection with 
     the financial management systems of the Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON CERTAIN EFFORTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
              FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
              DEFENSE.

    (a) Report Required.--No later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
Congress a report on the progress of the Department of Defense in 
modernizing its financial management enterprise.
    (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall include 
following:
            (1) A description of the actions taken by the Department of 
        Defense as part of the implementation of the Digital 
        Modernization Strategy to modernize the data, architecture, and 
        systems comprising its financial management enterprise.
            (2) The name of each financial management system in use by 
        the Department, and an annotation of the data for which such 
        system is the official system of record.
            (3) The anticipated date of retirement for each system 
        named pursuant to paragraph (2) that is planned to be retired.
            (4) A summary of the retirement plan for any system that 
        will be retired, including the manner in which data in such 
        system will be transferred to a different system.
            (5) In the case of a system that is not planned for 
        retirement, a justification of the determination not to retire 
        such system.
            (6) The amount spent by the Department on operating and 
        maintaining financial management systems during the 5 fiscal 
        years ending with fiscal year 2020.
            (7) The amount spent by the Department on acquiring or 
        developing new financial management systems during such 5 
        fiscal years.
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