Sec. 903. Modernization of process used by the Department of Defense to identify, task, and manage Congressional reporting requirements

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The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs shall conduct an analysis of the process used by the Department of Defense to identify reports to Congress required by annual national defense authorization Acts, assign responsibility for preparation of such reports, and manage the completion and delivery of such reports to Congress for the purpose of identifying mechanisms to optimize and otherwise modernize the process. The Assistant Secretary shall conduct the analysis required by subsection

(a)with the assistance of and in consultation with the Chief Data Officer of the Department of Defense and the Director of the Defense Digital Service. The analysis required by subsection

(a)shall include the following: A business process reengineering of the process described in subsection (a). An assessment of applicable commercially available analytics tools, technologies, and services in connection with such business process reengineering. Such other actions as the Assistant Secretary considers appropriate for purposes of the analysis. Not later than November 15, 2020, the Assistant Secretary shall brief the congressional defense committees on the results of the analysis required by subsection (a). The briefing shall address the following: The results of the analysis and of the business process reengineering described in subsection (c)(1). A description of the actions being taken, and to be taken, to optimize and otherwise improve the process described in subsection (a). Such recommendations for administrative and legislative action as the Assistant Secretary considers appropriate to facilitate the optimization and improvement of the process described in subsection

(a)as a result of the analysis and the business process reengineering. Such other matters as the Assistant Secretary considers appropriate in connection with the analysis, the business process reengineering and the optimization and improvement of the process described in subsection (a).