[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4982-S4983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5582. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Peters) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. 
Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 B of title IX, add the following:

     SEC. 916. CLARIFICATION OF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR 
                   FORCE MODERNIZATION EFFORTS OF THE ARMY.

       (a) Plan Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives a plan that comprehensively 
     defines the roles and responsibilities of officials and 
     organizations of the Army with respect to the force 
     modernization efforts of the Army.
       (b) Elements.--The plan required under subsection (a) 
     shall--
       (1) identify the official within the Army who shall have 
     primary responsibility for the force modernization efforts of 
     the Army, and

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     specify the roles, responsibilities, and authorities of that 
     official;
       (2) clearly define the roles, responsibilities, and 
     authorities of the Army Futures Command and the Assistant 
     Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and 
     Technology with respect to such efforts;
       (3) clarify the roles, responsibilities, and authorities of 
     officials and organizations of the Army with respect to 
     acquisition in support of such efforts; and
       (4) include such other information as the Secretary of the 
     Army determines appropriate.
       (c) Role of Army Futures Command.--In the event the 
     Secretary of the Army does not submit the plan required under 
     subsection (a) by the expiration of the 180-day period 
     specified in such subsection, then beginning at the 
     expiration of such period--
       (1) the Commanding General of the Army Futures Command 
     shall have the roles, responsibilities, and authorities 
     assigned to the Commanding General pursuant to Army Directive 
     2020-15 (``Achieving Persistent Modernization'') as in effect 
     on November 16, 2020; and
       (2) any provision of Army Directive 2022-07 (``Army 
     Modernization Roles and Responsibilities''), or any successor 
     directive, that modifies or contravenes a provision of the 
     directive specified in paragraph (1) shall have no force or 
     effect.
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