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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 905
To require the establishment within the Department of Defense of a pilot
program on arsenal workload sustainment, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH6, 2025
Mr. D
URBIN(for himself, Mr. GRASSLEY, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Ms. ERNST, and
Mr. C
OTTON) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and re-
ferred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To require the establishment within the Department of De-
fense of a pilot program on arsenal workload
sustainment, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arsenal Workload 4
Sustainment Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM ON ARSENAL WORKLOAD 6
SUSTAINMENT. 7
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 8
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(1) The United States has a long and proud 1
history of manufacturing defense products. 2
(2) Factories and arsenals of the Department 3
of the Army that are owned and operated by the 4
United States Government are a critical component 5
of the organic industrial base. 6
(3) The first ever National Defense Industrial 7
Strategy released in 2024 recognized the need of the 8
Department of Defense to more strategically utilize 9
the organic industrial base in order to maintain a 10
competitive military advantage. 11
(4) Sufficient workload at arsenals of the De-12
partment of the Army that are owned and operated 13
by the United States Government ensure cost effi-14
ciency and technical competence in peacetime, while 15
preserving the ability to provide an effective and 16
timely response to mobilizations, national defense 17
contingency situations, and other emergency require-18
ments. 19
(b) E
STABLISHMENT OF PILOTPROGRAM.—Not 20
later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 21
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish a pilot pro-22
gram to be known as the ‘‘Arsenal Workload Sustainment 23
Pilot Program’’ (in this section referred to as the ‘‘pilot 24
program’’). 25
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(c) DURATION.—The pilot program shall be con-1
ducted for a period of five years. 2
(d) P
REFERENCES FOR PROCUREMENT ACTIONS OR 3
S
OLICITATIONS.— 4
(1) I
N GENERAL.—In carrying out the pilot 5
program, the Secretary of Defense shall give a pref-6
erence described in paragraph (2) for any procure-7
ment action or solicitation by a non-public partner 8
who has entered into a public-private partnership 9
with the Secretary in the source selection process if 10
such non-public partner uses an arsenal of the De-11
partment of the Army that is owned and operated by 12
the United States Government as a partner in any 13
type of contractual agreement with the United 14
States Government. 15
(2) P
REFERENCE DESCRIBED .—A preference 16
described in this paragraph is the addition of 20 17
percent to the price of any offer by a non-public 18
partner that does not use an arsenal of the Depart-19
ment of the Army that is owned and operated by the 20
United States Government as a partner in its bid for 21
the same procurement action or solicitation de-22
scribed in paragraph (1). 23
(3) F
URTHER PREFERENCE .—In selecting non- 24
public partners under paragraph (1), the Secretary 25
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of Defense shall give preference to non-public part-1
ners that— 2
(A) utilize the Advanced Manufacturing 3
Center of Excellence of the Army; and 4
(B) ensure not less than 25 percent of the 5
activities under the partnership are performed 6
by employees of the Department of Defense. 7
(e) R
EPORTREQUIRED.— 8
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 9
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-10
retary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate 11
congressional committees a report on the activities 12
carried out under the pilot program, including a de-13
scription of any operational challenges identified. 14
(2) E
LEMENTS.—The report required under 15
paragraph (1) shall include the following: 16
(A) A breakout, by relevant budget ac-17
counts, of workload at an arsenal of the De-18
partment of the Army that is owned and oper-19
ated by the United States Government that was 20
achieved in the prior fiscal year, whether di-21
rectly or through public-private partnerships 22
under the pilot program. 23
(B) An assessment of relevant budget ac-24
counts where such an arsenal can be utilized to 25
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meet future procurement needs of the Depart-1
ment of Defense, irrespective of cost. 2
(C) An outlook of expected workload at 3
each such arsenal during the period covered by 4
the future-years defense program submitted to 5
Congress under section 221 of title 10, United 6
States Code. 7
(D) The capital investments required to be 8
made at each such arsenal to ensure compliance 9
and operational capacity. 10
(f) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 11
(1) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -12
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-13
mittees’’ means— 14
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and 15
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee 16
on Appropriations of the Senate; and 17
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and 18
the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee 19
on Appropriations of the House of Representa-20
tives. 21
(2) N
ON-PUBLIC PARTNER.—The term ‘‘non- 22
public partner’’ means a corporation, individual, uni-23
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versity, or nonprofit organization that is not part of 1
the United States Government. 2
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