[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3412]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 330. 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 end of subtitle C of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 333. SENSE OF SENATE ON PRIORITIZING SURVIVABLE 
                   LOGISTICS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) resilient and agile logistics are necessary to 
     implement the 2018 National Defense Strategy because it 
     enables the United States to project power and sustain the 
     fight against its strategic competitors in peacetime and 
     during war;
       (2) the joint logistics enterprise of the Armed Forces of 
     the United States faces high-end threats from strategic 
     competitors China, Russia, and Iran, all of whom have 
     invested in anti-access area denial capabilities and gray 
     zone tactics;
       (3) there are significant logistics shortfalls, as outlined 
     in the November 2018 final report of the Defense Science 
     Board (DSB) Task Force on Survivable Logistics, which, if 
     left unaddressed, would hamper the readiness and ability of 
     the Armed Forces of the United States to conduct operations 
     globally;
       (4) the military departments have not shown a strong 
     commitment to funding logistics, for example--
       (A) the Army and the Air Force, excluding the reserve 
     components, requested $76,000,000 and $25,000,000 less, 
     respectively, for logistics between fiscal year 2019 and 
     fiscal year 2020;
       (B) since fiscal year 2018, there has been neither a line 
     item request for the National Defense Sealift Fund nor a 
     request to increase more prepositioning or surge ships; and
       (C) the Marine Corps only asked for $5,000,000 more in 
     procurement of commercial cargo vehicles for fiscal year 
     2020; and
       (5) the Secretary of Defense should enact the full list of 
     recommendations listed in the November 2018 final report of 
     the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force on Survivable 
     Logistics and, particularly, the Secretary should address the 
     chronic underfunding of logistics relative to other 
     priorities of the Department of Defense.
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