[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8248]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4666. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself, Mr. King, and Ms. Hirono) 
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 PROGRAMMING AND BUDGETING FOR THE 
                   PACIFIC DETERRENCE INITIATIVE.

       (a) Briefing.--Not later than 60 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 processes and guidance used to program and budget for the 
     Pacific Deterrence Initiative, including--
       (1) the allocation of fiscal toplines in the program 
     objective memorandum process to support the Pacific 
     Deterrence Initiative at the outset of the process;
       (2) the role of the combatant commanders in setting 
     requirements for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative;
       (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 the Pacific Deterrence 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 and guidance used to 
     program and budget the Pacific Deterrence Initiative align, 
     as appropriate, with the processes and guidance used to 
     program and budget for 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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