[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S3316]
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  SA 4282. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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 XI, add the following:

     SEC. 1114. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON BUSINESS CASES ANALYSES FOR 
                   DECISIONS AFFECTING THE WORKFORCE AND MODIFYING 
                   LOCATIONS OF WHERE WORK WILL BE EXECUTED OR 
                   COMPLETED.

       (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) in a budget constrained environment, the military 
     departments and Defense Agencies must utilize all available 
     tools to make informed, supportable decisions in moving 
     workforce and workload from one location or entity to 
     another;
       (2) such tools should include a properly supported and 
     documented business case analysis (BCA);
       (3) several military departments and Defense Agencies have 
     fallen short of proper analysis and support with respect to 
     decision described in paragraph (1) in recent months;
       (4) in one such case--
       (A) the Air Force relied exclusively on a rough order 
     economic analysis on an engine source of repair as 
     justification for moving nearly $40,000,000 per year of 
     workload; and
       (B) before reversing its decision, the Air Force had only 
     planned to accomplish business case analyses to shift work 
     after award of the solicitation;
       (5) in another case--
       (A) the Defense Health Agency announced that it would be 
     closing the Pacific Joint Information Technology Center 
     (PJITC), with an annual operation and maintenance cost of 
     $5,800,000, without supporting documentation or analysis;
       (B) the center performs Health Information Technology (HIT) 
     research and innovation and serves as a test center for joint 
     concept technology development (JCTD) prototyping for the 
     Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs 
     for information technology products and services;
       (C) if the center is closed, ongoing interoperability 
     projects between the Department of Defense and the Department 
     of Veterans Affairs will lose a critical health information 
     technology research hub which was responsible for the Joint 
     Legacy Viewer (JLV) which, in turn, is deployed throughout 
     the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans 
     Affairs and meets required interoperability standards;
       (D) Defense Health Agency officials contend that the 
     quality of the work completed at the center is not at issue, 
     and they plan to continue the work at a different facility 
     which is not a joint research facility and does not have the 
     capability or capacity to continue the work of the center;
       (6) before a military department or Defense Agency embarks 
     on a workforce decision of workload in excess of $3,000,000 
     per year, the Department of Defense needs to understand the 
     possible costs, benefits, risks, and impacts to the small 
     business goals, small and disadvantaged contracting 
     agreements, and other sensitivities of the Department 
     associated with such a decision;
       (7) the military departments and Defense Agencies should 
     perform a business case analysis, as part of any workforce 
     decision described in paragraph (6);
       (8) any such business case analysis for a workforce 
     decision having an annual estimated cost of $5,000,0000 or 
     more should be reviewed and approved by the Under Secretary 
     of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and 
     the Under Secretary should provide such business case 
     analysis to the congressional defense committees at least 30 
     days before taking any action to effect a shift in the 
     workload concerned;
       (9) the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics, 
     Materiel, and Readiness, working with the Cost Analysis 
     Program Evaluation office, should develop minimum standards 
     and criteria for business case analyses covered by this 
     section and a process for the review and transparency of such 
     business case analyses; and
       (10) the Assistant Secretary should submit to the 
     congressional defense committees, by not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, a report on the 
     plan of the Assistant Secretary plan to implement the 
     standards and criteria described in paragraph (9).
       (b) Business Case Analysis Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``business case analysis'' means a structured 
     methodology and decision support document that aids decision 
     making by identifying and comparing alternatives by examining 
     the mission and business impacts (both financial and non-
     financial), risks, and sensitivities.
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