[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4440-S4441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 394. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 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, insert the following:

     SEC. __. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   INSTALLATION ACCESS CONTROL INITIATIVES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a report evaluating Department of Defense 
     installation access control initiatives.
       (b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following elements:
       (1) An assessment of Department of Defense requirements for 
     managing access to military installations and the extent to

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     which the Department has taken an enterprise-wide approach to 
     developing those requirements and identifying capability 
     gaps.
       (2) A description of capabilities (processes and systems) 
     that are in place at military installations that currently 
     meet these requirements.
       (3) A summary of which options, including business process 
     reengineering, the development or acquisition of business 
     systems, and the acquisition of commercial solutions, are 
     being are being pursued to close those gaps.
       (4) A description of how the Department of Defense is 
     assessing which options to pursue in terms of cost, schedule, 
     and potential performance and to what extent the Department's 
     assessments follow directives under the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation and Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation to consider commercial products and services.
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