[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4465-S4466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 462. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Roberts) 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 end of subtitle E of title X, add the following:

     SEC. ___. ARMY MILITARY VALUE ANALYSIS MODEL.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following
       (1) The Military Value Analysis model of the Army has been 
     a key determinant for the force structure and strategic 
     basing decisions of the Army in recent years.
       (2) The Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives have determined that a lack of 
     transparency regarding process, metrics, and scoring on the 
     matters covered by the Military Value Analysis model has made 
     proper oversight of the Army by Congress far more difficult.
       (b) Limitation on Army Basing Decisions Pending Report on 
     Model.--The Secretary of the Army may not make any basing 
     decision with respect to the Army during the period beginning 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the 
     date that is 60 days after the date on which the Secretary 
     submits the report required by subsection (c).
       (c) Report on Updated Model.--
       (1) Report required.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army 
     shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
     setting forth an update of the Military Value Analysis model 
     of the Army.
       (2) Review.--The Secretary shall update the Military Value 
     Analysis model for purposes of the report required by 
     paragraph (1) following a review undertaken by the Secretary 
     for purposes of the update. The review and update shall 
     address and appropriately incorporate the following:
       (A) Qualitative and quantitative criteria and sub-criteria 
     to be used for force structure and strategic basing 
     decisions, including quantitative and qualitative measures on 
     the average daily use of, and accessibility to, maneuver 
     training acreage.
       (B) Deployment criteria using a measure of the time 
     required to deploy a unit of action from its home 
     installation to its deployment site, including the 
     transportation of unit personnel by military aircraft, and 
     transportation of the commonly defined set of unit equipment 
     to its designated out-port for deployment.
       (d) Scoring Data for Force Structure and Major Basing 
     Decisions.--After making

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     a force structure or major basing decision for the Army, the 
     Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees a report setting forth the scoring data 
     developed pursuant to the Military Value Analysis model of 
     the Army with respect to each military installation 
     considered for purposes of the decision.
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