[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4303]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2106. Mr. ROMNEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 A of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1216. IMPROVEMENTS TO SECURITY COOPERATION INFORMATION 
                   PORTAL.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     take steps--
       (1) to review the Security Cooperation Information Portal 
     (in this section referred to as ``SCIP''); and
       (2) to improve stakeholder access to, and data completeness 
     and software functionality of, SCIP.
       (b) Requirements.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall ensure that--
       (1) the functionality and software of SCIP adequately 
     support the purpose of SCIP to reflect, accurately an in real 
     time, the status of individual foreign military sales cases 
     within the foreign military sales process;
       (2) SCIP--
       (A) includes data that allows users to track the progress 
     of all major milestones of a foreign military sales case;
       (B) may be accessed by--
       (i) relevant officials of the Department of State, 
     including personnel of the Bureau of Political-Military 
     Affairs and United States missions in foreign countries; and
       (ii) relevant officials of the Department of Defense, 
     including--

       (I) Defense Security Cooperation Agency personnel;
       (II) acquisitions personnel of the Program Executive 
     Offices;
       (III) acquisition program managers;
       (IV) relevant contracting officers;
       (V) personnel of the combatant commands;
       (VI) United States security cooperation organization 
     personnel; and
       (VII) defense attaches stationed at United States missions 
     in foreign countries; and

       (C) is equipped with a capability by which personnel 
     described in subparagraph (B) may effectively input and 
     access relevant information and data; and
       (3) any other improvement the Secretary considers necessary 
     to enhance the overall effectiveness and usefulness of SCIP 
     is timely implemented.
       (c) Report and Briefing.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a 
     report and provide a briefing to the appropriate committees 
     of Congress on the steps taken under subsections (a) and (b) 
     to review and improve SCIP.
       (2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
     Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on 
     Appropriations, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
     House of Representatives.
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