[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3487]
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SA 2028. Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. Sanders) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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 A of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1003. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON CERTAIN EFFORTS IN
CONNECTION WITH THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) Report Required.--No later than 120 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to Congress a report on the progress of the Department
of the Defense in--
(1) retiring legacy financial management systems; and
(2) obtaining or developing a fully-integrated, United
States Standard General Ledger (USSGL)-compliant financial
management system or systems.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include following:
(1) The name of each financial management system in use by
the Department of Defense.
(2) The anticipated date of retirement for each such system
planned to be retired.
(3) A summary of the retirement plan for any system that
will be retired, including the manner in which data in such
system will be transferred to a different system.
(4) In the case of a system that is not planned for
retirement, a justification of the determination not to
retire such system.
(5) The average aggregate amount spent by the Department on
operating and maintaining legacy financial management systems
during the five fiscal years ending with fiscal year 2020.
(6) The average aggregate amount spent by the Department on
acquiring or developing new financial management systems
during such five fiscal years.
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