[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 95 (Monday, June 15, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S4166]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2039. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Baldwin, and 
Mr. Franken) 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 E of title VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 884. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ROLE OF CHIEF INFORMATION 
                   OFFICER IN RESOURCES, PLANNING, AND PORTFOLIO 
                   MANAGEMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BY THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

       Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, in 
     applying the implementation guidance for section 11319 of 
     title 40, United States Code (M-15-14, dated June 10, 2015), 
     the Department of Energy and the Office of Management and 
     Budget should work collaboratively to--
       (1) ensure the unique issues associated with the Department 
     of Energy's High Performance Computing (HPC) program are 
     given appropriate consideration;
       (2) avoid unnecessarily duplicating the Department of 
     Energy's existing project management processes for the HPC 
     program; and
       (3) avoid creating any unnecessary layers of approval that 
     may impede the Department of Energy's deployment of mission-
     critical HPC systems.
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