[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8045-S8046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4526. Mr. SULLIVAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1253. BRIEFING ON SYNCHRONIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF 
                   PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE AND EUROPEAN 
                   DETERRENCE INITIATIVE.

       (a) Briefing.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary of Defense 
     shall provide to the congressional defense committees a 
     briefing on the synchronization of the processes used to 
     implement the Pacific Deterrence Initiative with the 
     processes used to implement the European Deterrence 
     Initiative, including--
       (1) the allocation of fiscal toplines in the program 
     objective memorandum process to

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     support such initiatives at the outset of process;
       (2) the role of the combatant commanders in setting 
     requirements for such initiatives;
       (3) the role of the military departments and other 
     components of the Armed Forces in proposing programmatic 
     options to meet such requirements; and
       (4) the role of the combatant commanders, the military 
     departments and other components of the Armed Forces, the 
     Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office, and the Deputy 
     Secretary of Defense in adjudicating requirements and 
     programmatic options--
       (A) before the submission of the program objective 
     memorandum for each such initiative; and
       (B) during program review.
       (b) Guidance.--In establishing program objective memorandum 
     guidance for fiscal year 2024, the Deputy Secretary of 
     Defense shall ensure that the processes used to implement the 
     Pacific Deterrence Initiative align with the processes used 
     to implement the European Deterrence Initiative, including 
     through the allocation of fiscal toplines for each such 
     initiative in the fiscal year 2024 process.
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