Title: Defense Storage and Supply Efficiency Improvement Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Defense Storage and Supply Efficiency Improvement Act
This bill allows the Department of Defense (DOD) to consolidate distribution center infrastructure. DOD must submit a plan including (1) cost-savings estimates, (2) a list of facilities subject to closure or disposal, and (3) a certification that supply chain effectiveness will not be compromised.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2487 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2487

To improve the effectiveness and efficiency and reduce the cost of the 
 supply chain and inventory management of the Department of Defense by 
        consolidating unnecessary and unneeded storage centers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2019

   Ms. Ernst introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To improve the effectiveness and efficiency and reduce the cost of the 
 supply chain and inventory management of the Department of Defense by 
        consolidating unnecessary and unneeded storage centers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Storage and Supply 
Efficiency Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO CONSOLIDATE 
              INFRASTRUCTURE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS TO IMPROVE 
              EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF SUPPLY CHAIN AND 
              INVENTORY MANAGEMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may consolidate 
infrastructure, including warehouses, at the distribution centers of 
the Department of Defense to improve the effectiveness and efficiency 
of the supply chain and inventory management of the Department to 
support the needs of the Armed Forces and reduce costs.
    (b) Plan.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days before implementing 
        any consolidation under subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
        submit to Congress a plan for such consolidation.
            (2) Elements.--Any plan submitted under paragraph (1) with 
        respect to consolidation under subsection (a) shall include the 
        following:
                    (A) An estimate of the cost savings of such 
                consolidation.
                    (B) An itemized description of how such cost 
                savings are expected to be spent.
                    (C) A list of the specific facilities that will be 
                subject to closure or disposal under such 
                consolidation.
                    (D) With respect to each facility subject to 
                closure or disposal under such consolidation, an 
                explanation of how the closure or disposal of the 
                facility will increase the efficiency or enhance the 
                functioning of the supply chain of the Department.
                    (E) A certification that the overall effectiveness 
                of the supply chain of the Department will not be 
                compromised or hindered by such consolidation.
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