IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1249 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 21, 2017 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require 
a multiyear acquisition strategy of the Department of 
Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘DHS Multiyear Acqui-
sition Strategy Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. MULTIYEAR ACQUISITION STRATEGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle D of title VIII of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 391 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 836. MULTIYEAR ACQUISITION STRATEGY. 
‘‘(a) MULTIYEAR
ACQUISITION
STRATEGY
RE-
QUIRED.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this section, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
committees and the Comptroller General of the 
United States a multiyear acquisition strategy to 
guide the overall direction of the acquisitions of the 
Department while allowing flexibility to deal with 
ever-changing threats and risks, and to help indus-
try better understand, plan, and align resources to 
meet the future acquisition needs of the Depart-
ment. Such strategy shall be updated and included 
in each Future Years Homeland Security Program 
required under section 874. 
‘‘(2) FORM.—The strategy required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 
may include a classified annex for any sensitive or 
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classified information if necessary. The Secretary 
shall publish such strategy in an unclassified format 
that is publicly available. 
‘‘(b) CONSULTATION.—In developing the strategy re-
quired under subsection (a), the Secretary shall, as the 
Secretary determines appropriate, consult with head-
quarters, components, employees in the field, and individ-
uals from industry and the academic community. 
‘‘(c) CONTENTS OF STRATEGY.—The strategy shall 
include the following: 
‘‘(1) PRIORITIZED LIST.—A systematic and in-
tegrated prioritized list developed by the Under Sec-
retary for Management in coordination with all of 
the Component Acquisition Executives of Depart-
ment major acquisition programs that Department 
and component acquisition investments seek to ad-
dress, including the expected security and economic 
benefit of the program or system that is the subject 
of acquisition and an analysis of how the security 
and economic benefit derived from such program or 
system will be measured. 
‘‘(2) INVENTORY.—A plan to develop a reliable 
Department-wide inventory of investments and real 
property assets to help the Department— 
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