[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2658. Mr. SANDERS 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 VIII, add the following:

     SEC. 834. REPORT ON COST CHANGES IN MAJOR DEFENSE ACQUISITION 
                   PROGRAMS.

       (a) Report Required.--The Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees and the Committees on the Budget of the 
     Senate and the House of Representatives an annual report on 
     total acquisition cost estimate changes in the major defense 
     acquisition programs of the Department of Defense, as 
     measured from each individual program's first full estimate.
       (b) Information To Be Included.--The report required under 
     subsection (a) shall include--
       (1) a listing of all major defense acquisition programs for 
     the previous quarter ending December 31;
       (2) identification of the total acquisition cost estimates 
     for each program identified in paragraph (1) for the previous 
     quarter ending December 31;
       (3) identification of the first full estimate of total 
     acquisition cost for each program identified in paragraph 
     (1); and
       (4) a calculation of the total acquisition cost-estimate 
     change, both in terms of dollars and percentage of total, 
     since the first full estimate for each program identified in 
     paragraph (1) for the previous quarter ending December 31.
       (c) Other Requirements.--The report required under 
     subsection (a) shall present all cost information in constant 
     year dollars to correspond with the year in which the report 
     is submitted.
       (d) Definitions.--
       (1) The term ``total acquisition cost estimate'' means a 
     program's estimated total expenditure of research, 
     development, test, and evaluation; procurement; acquisition-
     related operations and maintenance; and system-specific 
     military construction funds.
       (2) The term ``first full estimate of total acquisition 
     cost'' means a program's first total acquisition cost 
     estimate set in an acquisition program baseline, in 
     accordance with section 2435 of title 10, United States Code. 
     For a development program, the first full estimate is either 
     the program's planning estimate, if one was established, or 
     the development estimate established at the time of Milestone 
     B approval (as that term is defined in section 2366(e) of 
     title 10, United States Code), whichever estimate occurred 
     first. For programs that entered the acquisition cycle, or 
     became major defense acquisition programs, at the time of 
     Milestone C approval (as that term is defined in section 
     2366(e) of title 10, United States Code), the production 
     estimate would be the first full estimate.
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