[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 140 (Wednesday, August 22, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3940. Mr. PERDUE (for himself and Mr. Isakson) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. 
Shelby to the bill H.R. 6157, making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VIII of division A, 
     insert the following:
       Sec. ___.  Not later than January 31, 2019, the Comptroller 
     General of the United States shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report--
       (1) comparing the cost expenditures of organic industrial 
     depot maintenance of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target 
     Attack Radar System aircraft fleet versus contracted or non-
     organic maintenance; and
       (2) comparing the cost variance and cost savings of 
     different programmed depot maintenance cycles or procedures 
     for the E-8C, including comparisons to such other platforms 
     as the Comptroller General considers appropriate.
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