Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Department of Defense Waste Reduction Act”.
Department of Defense Waste Reduction Act
A BILL
To limit the amount of authorization of appropriations for the Department of Defense unless the Secretary of Defense implements cost-saving recommendations contained in a certain study by the Defense Business Board, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Implementation of cost-saving recommendations
Limitation on total amounts for Department of Defense— There may not be appropriated to the Department of Defense supplemental funds for fiscal year 2017 or funds for fiscal year 2018 if the total amount of funds for the Department for such respective fiscal year exceed the total amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for the Department by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114–328) unless—
the Secretary of Defense certifies to the congressional defense committees that the Secretary—
has evaluated each recommendation for cost savings in the Department of Defense contained in the study conducted by the Defense Business Board titled “Transforming Department of Defense’s Core Business Processes for Revolutionary Change”; and
is implementing each such recommendation; or
if the Secretary is unable to make the certification under paragraph (1)—
the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees a report explaining why the Secretary is not implementing any such recommendation; and
a period of 30 days elapses following the submission of such report.
Congressional defense committees defined— In this section, the term congressional defense committees has the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.