[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 93 (Thursday, June 11, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4110-S4111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1997. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 C of title II, add the following:

     SEC. 236. ASSESSMENT OF EFFECT OF BETTER BUYING POWER 3.0 
                   INITIATIVE ON INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AND 
                   DEVELOPMENT.

       (a) Assessment of Better Buying Power 3.0.--Not later than 
     90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees an assessment of the Better Buying Power 
     3.0 initiative and its management of independent research and 
     development activities by contractors of the Department of 
     Defense.
       (b) Elements.--The assessment required under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) An assessment of the implementation of Better Buying 
     Power 3.0 and how it balances the need for management of 
     reimbursement of Department contractor independent research 
     and development costs with the need to preserve the 
     independence of a contractor to choose which technologies to 
     pursue in its independent research and development program.
       (2) An assessment of the costs, risks and benefits of 
     proposed changes to the current guidelines of the Department 
     for authorizing independent research and development by

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     contractors and reimbursing such contractors for expenses 
     relating to such independent research and development.
       (3) Recommendations for legislative or administrative 
     action to improve the ways in which the Department authorizes 
     independent research and development by contractors of the 
     Department and reimburses such contractors for expenses 
     relating to such independent research and development.
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