[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5695]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6158. Mr. SANDERS (for himself and Mr. Grassley) 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. IMPROVEMENTS TO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OF 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Requirements.--Not later than one year after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Defense 
     shall ensure--
       (1) establishment of measures to determine if the 
     Department of Defense is succeeding in achieving the goals 
     described in its financial management strategy;
       (2) establishment of a specific time frame for developing 
     an enterprise road map to implement that strategy and that 
     such a road map is developed;
       (3) development of detailed migration plans for--
       (A) the General Accounting and Finance System-Reengineered 
     of the Air Force;
       (B) the Standard Accounting and Reporting System of the 
     Navy; and
       (C) the Standard Finance System and the Standard Operation 
     and Maintenance Army Research and Development System of the 
     Army;
       (4) implementation of a mechanism for identifying financial 
     management systems that support the preparation of the 
     financial statements of the Department in the systems 
     inventory and budget data of the Department, and the 
     identification of a complete list of financial management 
     systems; and
       (5) restriction of obligation and expenditure of funds for 
     its financial management systems to only what is essential to 
     maintain functioning systems and help ensure system security 
     until the Department has completed the tasks required by 
     paragraphs (1) through (4).
       (b) Reports Required.--
       (1) Status report.--Not later than 18 months after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit a written report on how the requirements of subsection 
     (a) have been met to--
       (A) the congressional defense committees;
       (B) the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives; and
       (C) the Comptroller General of the United States.
       (2) Defense business systems audit remediation plan.--After 
     submission of the report required by paragraph (1), each 
     subsequent report of the Secretary of Defense on the Defense 
     Business Systems Audit Remediation Plan required by section 
     240g of title 10, United States Code, shall include, in a 
     consistent annual format, an update on the implementation of 
     the plans, measures, road maps, and mechanisms developed 
     under subsection (a).
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