[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 121 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4153-S4154]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2399. Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself and Mr. Sanders) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. 
Inhofe 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

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year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        At the end of subtitle A of title X, insert 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 modernizing its financial management 
     enterprise.
       (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
     include following:
       (1) A description of the actions taken by the Department of 
     Defense as part of the implementation of the Digital 
     Modernization Strategy to modernize the data, architecture, 
     and systems comprising its financial management enterprise.
       (2) The name of each financial management system in use by 
     the Department, and an annotation of the data for which such 
     system is the official system of record.
       (3) The anticipated date of retirement for each system 
     named pursuant to paragraph (2) that is planned to be 
     retired.
       (4) 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.
       (5) In the case of a system that is not planned for 
     retirement, a justification of the determination not to 
     retire such system.
       (6) The amount spent by the Department on operating and 
     maintaining financial management systems during the five 
     fiscal years ending with fiscal year 2020.
       (7) The amount spent by the Department on acquiring or 
     developing new financial management systems during such five 
     fiscal years.
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