[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3617]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2598. Mr. CRUZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 C of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 323. REPORT ON DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army, in 
     consultation with the Chief of Staff of the Army, shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a report on 
     labor hours and depot maintenance.
       (b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following elements:
       (1) An estimate of the amount of public and private funding 
     of depot-level maintenance and repair (as defined in section 
     2460 of title 10, United State Code) for the Department of 
     the Army, and any other command identified by the Secretary, 
     expressed by commodity group by percentage and actual numbers 
     in terms of dollars and direct labor hours.
       (2) Within each category of depot level maintenance and 
     repair for each entities, the amount of the subset of depot 
     maintenance workload that meets the description under section 
     2464 of title 10, United States Code, that is performed in 
     the public and private sectors by direct labor hours and by 
     dollars.
       (3) Of the subset referred to in paragraph (2), the amount 
     of depot maintenance workload performed in the public and 
     private sector by direct labor hour and by dollars for each 
     entity that would otherwise be considered core workload under 
     section 2462 of title 10, United States Code, but is not 
     considered core because a weapon system or equipment has not 
     been declared a program of record.
       (4) An identification and description of depot level 
     maintenance and repair workload occurring at each 
     installation that is outside of the scope of what has been 
     identified by the Secretary of the Army as a Center of 
     Industrial and Technical Excellence under section 2474 of 
     title 10, United States Code, and an assessment whether that 
     workload should be occurring at another installation under 
     such section.
       (5) The projections for the upcoming future years defense 
     program.
       (6) A business case analysis on incorporating the depot-
     level maintenance and repair requirements of the Department 
     of Homeland Security and other Federal agencies into the 
     organic industrial base.
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