[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 260. Ms. DUCKWORTH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 appropriate place in title VIII, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. MUNITIONS SUSTAINMENT PILOT PROGRAM.

       (a) Establishment.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall 
     establish a pilot program at the Joint Munitions Command for 
     the sustainment of munitions, focusing on the overall life-
     cycle management of a munitions program from Milestone C 
     approval (as that term is defined in section 2366(e) of title 
     10, United States Code) through demilitarization of the 
     munitions.
       (b) Scope.--The pilot program established under subsection 
     (a) shall--
       (1) address the Department of Defense recommendations in 
     the interagency report entitled, ``Assessing and 
     Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base 
     and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States'' related to 
     diversifying sources of supply and modernizing the organic 
     industrial base;
       (2) demonstrate any cost savings and operational 
     efficiencies that could be gained by centralizing the 
     sustainment of munitions; and
       (3) begin developing an automated process that will help 
     determine the critical levels of requirements for munitions 
     and the required sources necessary to fulfill them.
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