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4	4	STSESSION S. 905
5	5	To require the establishment within the Department of Defense of a pilot
6	6	program on arsenal workload sustainment, and for other purposes.
7	7	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
8	8	MARCH6, 2025
9	9	Mr. D
10	10	URBIN(for himself, Mr. GRASSLEY, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms. ERNST, and
11	11	Mr. C
12	12	OTTON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re-
13	13	ferred to the Committee on Armed Services
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To require the establishment within the Department of De-
16	16	fense of a pilot program on arsenal workload
17	17	sustainment, and for other purposes.
18	18	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
19	19	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
20	20	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
21	21	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arsenal Workload 4
22	22	Sustainment Act’’. 5
23	23	SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM ON ARSENAL WORKLOAD 6
24	24	SUSTAINMENT. 7
25	25	(a) F
26	26	INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 8
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30	30	(1) The United States has a long and proud 1
31	31	history of manufacturing defense products. 2
32	32	(2) Factories and arsenals of the Department 3
33	33	of the Army that are owned and operated by the 4
34	34	United States Government are a critical component 5
35	35	of the organic industrial base. 6
36	36	(3) The first ever National Defense Industrial 7
37	37	Strategy released in 2024 recognized the need of the 8
38	38	Department of Defense to more strategically utilize 9
39	39	the organic industrial base in order to maintain a 10
40	40	competitive military advantage. 11
41	41	(4) Sufficient workload at arsenals of the De-12
42	42	partment of the Army that are owned and operated 13
43	43	by the United States Government ensure cost effi-14
44	44	ciency and technical competence in peacetime, while 15
45	45	preserving the ability to provide an effective and 16
46	46	timely response to mobilizations, national defense 17
47	47	contingency situations, and other emergency require-18
48	48	ments. 19
49	49	(b) E
50	50	STABLISHMENT OF PILOTPROGRAM.—Not 20
51	51	later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 21
52	52	Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish a pilot pro-22
53	53	gram to be known as the ‘‘Arsenal Workload Sustainment 23
54	54	Pilot Program’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘pilot 24
55	55	program’’). 25
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59	59	(c) DURATION.—The pilot program shall be con-1
60	60	ducted for a period of five years. 2
61	61	(d) P
62	62	REFERENCES FOR PROCUREMENT ACTIONS OR 3
63	63	S
64	64	OLICITATIONS.— 4
65	65	(1) I
66	66	N GENERAL.—In carrying out the pilot 5
67	67	program, the Secretary of Defense shall give a pref-6
68	68	erence described in paragraph (2) for any procure-7
69	69	ment action or solicitation by a non-public partner 8
70	70	who has entered into a public-private partnership 9
71	71	with the Secretary in the source selection process if 10
72	72	such non-public partner uses an arsenal of the De-11
73	73	partment of the Army that is owned and operated by 12
74	74	the United States Government as a partner in any 13
75	75	type of contractual agreement with the United 14
76	76	States Government. 15
77	77	(2) P
78	78	REFERENCE DESCRIBED .—A preference 16
79	79	described in this paragraph is the addition of 20 17
80	80	percent to the price of any offer by a non-public 18
81	81	partner that does not use an arsenal of the Depart-19
82	82	ment of the Army that is owned and operated by the 20
83	83	United States Government as a partner in its bid for 21
84	84	the same procurement action or solicitation de-22
85	85	scribed in paragraph (1). 23
86	86	(3) F
87	87	URTHER PREFERENCE .—In selecting non- 24
88	88	public partners under paragraph (1), the Secretary 25
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92	92	of Defense shall give preference to non-public part-1
93	93	ners that— 2
94	94	(A) utilize the Advanced Manufacturing 3
95	95	Center of Excellence of the Army; and 4
96	96	(B) ensure not less than 25 percent of the 5
97	97	activities under the partnership are performed 6
98	98	by employees of the Department of Defense. 7
99	99	(e) R
100	100	EPORTREQUIRED.— 8
101	101	(1) I
102	102	N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 9
103	103	after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-10
104	104	retary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate 11
105	105	congressional committees a report on the activities 12
106	106	carried out under the pilot program, including a de-13
107	107	scription of any operational challenges identified. 14
108	108	(2) E
109	109	LEMENTS.—The report required under 15
110	110	paragraph (1) shall include the following: 16
111	111	(A) A breakout, by relevant budget ac-17
112	112	counts, of workload at an arsenal of the De-18
113	113	partment of the Army that is owned and oper-19
114	114	ated by the United States Government that was 20
115	115	achieved in the prior fiscal year, whether di-21
116	116	rectly or through public-private partnerships 22
117	117	under the pilot program. 23
118	118	(B) An assessment of relevant budget ac-24
119	119	counts where such an arsenal can be utilized to 25
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123	123	meet future procurement needs of the Depart-1
124	124	ment of Defense, irrespective of cost. 2
125	125	(C) An outlook of expected workload at 3
126	126	each such arsenal during the period covered by 4
127	127	the future-years defense program submitted to 5
128	128	Congress under section 221 of title 10, United 6
129	129	States Code. 7
130	130	(D) The capital investments required to be 8
131	131	made at each such arsenal to ensure compliance 9
132	132	and operational capacity. 10
133	133	(f) D
134	134	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 11
135	135	(1) A
136	136	PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -12
137	137	TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-13
138	138	mittees’’ means— 14
139	139	(A) the Committee on Armed Services and 15
140	140	the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee 16
141	141	on Appropriations of the Senate; and 17
142	142	(B) the Committee on Armed Services and 18
143	143	the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee 19
144	144	on Appropriations of the House of Representa-20
145	145	tives. 21
146	146	(2) N
147	147	ON-PUBLIC PARTNER.—The term ‘‘non- 22
148	148	public partner’’ means a corporation, individual, uni-23
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152	152	versity, or nonprofit organization that is not part of 1
153	153	the United States Government. 2
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