[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5073]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 851. Mrs. ERNST (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Durbin, and Ms. 
Duckworth) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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 D of title III, add the following:

     SEC. __. GUIDANCE REGARDING USE OF ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL BASE.

       The Secretary of the Army shall maintain the arsenals with 
     sufficient workloads to ensure affordability and technical 
     competence in all critical capability areas by establishing, 
     not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, 
     clear, step-by-step, prescriptive guidance on the process for 
     conducting make-or-buy analyses, including the use of the 
     organic industrial base.
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