[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3373]
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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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