Sec. 1079. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROCESSES FOR RESPONDING TO CONGRESSIONAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
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## SEC. 1079 COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROCESSES FOR RESPONDING TO CONGRESSIONAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS ###
(a)Comptroller General Analysis Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing an analysis of the processes of the Department of Defense for responding to congressional reporting requirements. ###
(b)Criteria for Evaluation The analysis required under subsection
(a)shall include an evaluation of funding and changes to policies and business practices by the Department for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and public transparency of the compliance of the Department with congressional reporting requirements. ###
(c)Contents of Report The report required by subsection
(a)shall include each of the following: ####
(1)A review of— #####
(A)current laws, guidance, policies for Department of Defense compliance with congressional reporting requirements; #####
(B)recent direction from the congressional defense committees concerning how the Department designs, modifies, tracks, delivers, and inventories completed reports; and #####
(C)the response of the Department of Defense to the plan required by section 874 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115-232; 132 Stat. 1906). ####
(2)An evaluation of the cost and effectiveness of— #####
(A)the existing processes the Department of Defense uses to track and respond to congressional reporting requirements; and #####
(B)the ongoing modernization efforts referred to in subparagraphs
(B)and
(C)of paragraph (1), including— ######
(i)the design, development, and fielding of efforts to modernize existing report tracking systems; ######
(ii)the potential for system-level access solutions; and ######
(iii)the standardization of report-related data, including types of reporting requirements. ####
(3)An analysis of further options for modernizing the preparation and coordination process for required reports and other written correspondence from the Department of Defense to the congressional defense committees. Such analysis shall include— #####
(A)the coordination of Department of Defense business practices and internal policies with legislative processes; and #####
(B)the feasibility of the Department of Defense, the Government Publishing Office, or another Federal Government entity maintaining a consolidated online public database for unclassified reports submitted after the date of the enactment of this Act pursuant to a congressional reporting requirement that includes, for each report in the database— ######
(i)a copy of the report; ######
(ii)the deadline on which the report was required to be submitted to Congress; ######
(iii)the date on which the report was transmitted; ######
(iv)the total cost associated with the report; and ######
(v)a brief summary of the report, including a citation to the legislative text requiring the report. ###
(d)Congressional Reporting Requirement Defined In this section. the term “congressional reporting requirement” means a requirement that the Secretary of Defense, or any element or official of the Department of Defense, submit to Congress, or to a committee of Congress, an unclassified report or briefing by reason of— ####
(1)any provision of title 10, United States Code; ####
(2)a provision of any National Defense Authorization Act; ####
(3)a provision of a statement of managers that accompanied the conference report for any National Defense Authorization Act; or ####
(4)a provision of a committee report that accompanied a version of any National Defense Authorization Act, as reported by the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate or the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. ## Subtitle G Other Matters
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Sec. 1079
COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROCESSES FOR RESPONDING TO CONGRESSIONAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Stat.132 Stat. 1906
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