Stop Price Gouging the Military Act

Supported progress payment provision in the NDAA (S. 4543, Sec. 827) Supported stronger beneficial ownership disclosures Supported the Stop Pentagon Price Gouging Act (S. 4374 & H.R. 8007) Supported certain provisions in the NDAA involving clean contracting, beneficial ownership, stock trade bans, whistleblower protections, F-35 transparency, hiring procedures, use of location data, congressional war powers, and money laundering protections Opposed certain provisions in the NDAA involving preventing LCS retirement, closing out A-10s, using CUI to hide information, and accelerating the revolving door Supported reduction of budget topline

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Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Supported the Stop Pentagon Price Gouging Act (S. 4374 & H.R. 8007) Supported improved access to cost or pricing data Supported the nomination of Robert Storch to serve as DOD IG Supported Pentagon budget cut bill (H.R. 8040) Supported Cost of War Act of 2022 (H.R. 7147) Supported transparency and oversight of Ukraine spending to prevent waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars Supported retaining President Bidens cut to the Littoral Combat Ship program (H. Amdt. 569 to H.R. 7900)

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Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE

Defense Appropriations Lobbied on the following issues H.R. 8236, the Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Appropriations Act: 1.Supported retaining section 8012 language that clearly prohibits using appropriated funds to arbitrarily constrain the DoD civilian workforce to Full Time Equivalent personnel caps, End Strength, or maximum number of employees. Provision also prohibits arbitrary reductions of the programmed civilian full-time equivalents projected over the Future Years Defense Program years absent an appropriate analysis of the impacts on readiness, lethality, stress on the force, operational effectiveness, military force structure, workload and fully burdened costs. Opposed Administration proposal from the Presidents Budget to strike this provision and replace with a section 8008 that would permit the Department of Defense to constrain the civilian workforce to arbitrary personnel caps and arbitrarily reduce it for any reason. 2.Supported inclusion in section 8012 additional language prohibiting use of appropriated funds for term or temporary hiring for enduring functions. 3.Supported inclusion of language in the FY 2023 Defense Appropriations bill that mandates compliance with contract service planning, programming, and budgeting statutory requirements and Total Force Management statutory limitations on privatization (including compliance with the public-private competition moratorium). National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Lobbied on the following issues for H.R. 7900, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023 NDAA) both in the House Armed Services Committee and Senate Armed Services Committee Members based on Member Requests proposals for Amendments for committee and subcommittee markup on the following issues (Senate bill number not assigned yet). 1.Inclusion of language in the FY 2023 NDAA that would strengthen total force management within the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution system of the DoD: a.By reviving the Enterprise Contractor Manpower Reporting Application process for collecting fully burdened cost data from contractors; b.By ensuring near- and long-term strategic readiness includes data analytics for identifying DoD civilian contributions to readiness, leveraging Center for Naval Analysis study previously asked for in the Fiscal Year 2020 NDAA. c.By strengthening and clarifying statutory framework to ensure program and budget reviews challenge, compete, and prioritize contract services requirements instead of the default practice of cutting the DoD civilian workforce. 2.Inclusion of language in the FY2023 NDAA to repeal the remaining arbitrary personnel caps on headquarters functions in sections 143, 155, 194, 7014, 8014 and 9014 of title 10. 3.Continuation of the public-private competition moratorium on OMB Circular A-76. Inclusion of language strengthening implementation of section 815 of the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA depending on the Departments implementation of those provisions to enforce compliance with existing statutory restrictions on converting civilian positions to contract performance and to ensure the Department is complying with statutory requirements to consider civilian employees for performance of closely associated with inherently governmental and critical functions. 4.Inclusion of language in the FY2023 NDAA that continues the prohibition of another round of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). 5.Inclusion of language in the FY2023 NDAA encouraging the DoD to hire civilian backfills when converting military medical structure to operational requirements in the Military Medical Treatment Facilities. 6.Inclusion of language in the FY2023 NDAA encouraging Commissaries to address food insecurity among military families by ending variable pricing and establishing specific pilot programs to provide free produce to eligible military families. 7.Inclusion of language in FY2023 NDAA to improve sustainment planning for major weapon system acquisitions by re-establishing the manpower estimate report process prior to milestone B and C decision on the appropriate mix between Active Component and Reserve Component military. civilian employees, host nation and contract support for operating, training and maintaining major weapon systems. This became section 804. 8.Inclusion of language in FY2023 NDAA terminating authority for alternative compensation frameworks by repealing authority for the Acquisition Demo project which has been documented as discriminatory to women and minorities. 9.Inclusion of language in FY2023 NDAA prohibiting the misuse of term and temporary hiring authorities for enduring missions. 10.Inclusion in the FY2023 NDAA H.R. 903, The Rights for the TSA Workforce Act of 2021, as reported in the House Homeland Security Committee. 11.Inclusion of H.R. 962 and S. 1888, The Law Enforcement Equity Act, in the FY2023 NDAA. 12.Inclusion of H.R. 2499 and S. 1116, The Federal Firefighters Fairness Act, in the FY20223 NDAA. 13.Inclusion of H.R. 6967 and S. 3423, Chance to Compete Act of 2022, in the FY2023 NDAA. 14.Inclusion of directive report language in the FY2023 NDAA requesting an Administrative Conference of United States review of the efficiency, effectiveness, and fairness from a due process perspective of DoD and government security clearance determinations, as well as a Federally Funded Research and Development demographic survey on whether security clearance adjudications within DoD and other federal agencies have been applied in a discriminatory manner against protected Civil Rights categories and in favor of certain hate groups. 15.Consideration of the adverse effects of limited access to technical data in the organic industrial base and limits to governmental access to certified cost and pricing data under the Truth in Negotiations Act resulting from recent expansions of commercial items and services definitions through the NDADA to sole source procurements that have contributed to escalating sustainment costs and cybersecurity risks for DoD weapon systems. 16.Inclusion of H.R. 3086 and S. 1561, the Locality Pay Equity Act of 2021, in the FY2023 NDAA. Provided input to Rep. Norcross staff on potential floor amendment that would request a GAO review addressing this issue in the shipyards. Recommended expanding amendment to include depots, arsenals and Defense Logistics Agency sites. 17.Inclusion of H.R. 8007 and S. 4374, Stop Price Gauging the Military Act, in the FY2023 NDAA. 18.Clarification of the calculation of deport workload carryover calculations in Readiness subcommittee mark. This became section 367. 19.Opposed inclusion of Rep. Green (R-TN) language prohibiting Commissaries and Exchanges from selling Chinese-manufactured goods because of its impact on 40K Non-Appropriated Fund workers when no such restriction was being proposed for private sector competitors. This became section 631. 20.Clarification of the increase of minimum capital investment in depots from 6 percent to 8 percent in section 363. 21.Opposed inclusion of Air Force proposal entitled, Improvement to use of Cyber and Information Technology Workforce for Enterprise Information Technology, a proposal essentially to exempt the Cyber and IT workforce from the public-private competition moratorium and the underlying requirement to perform public-private competitions. 22.Discussed with Senator Shaheen staff the possibility of language that would help DoD civilian employees and their families, along with military, to take leave to get abortions. 23.Supported Amendment Number 5 proposed by Rep. Norton (D-D.C.) and Rep. Brown (D.-MD) to give the Mayor of the District of Columbia the same authority over the National Guard (NG) that the governors of states and territories have. 24.Supported Amendment Number 11 proposed by Rep. Brownley (D-CA) that would allow FAA Air Traffic Controllers to work at Contract Tower facilities without losing federal retirement benefits. 25.Supported Amendment Number 23 proposed by Rep. Cicilline (D-RI) that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to evaluate productivity expectations for readjustment counselors of Vet Centers, including by gaining feedback from counselors that must be audited annually for five years by the Government Accountability Office. This amendment would also require the VA to develop and implement a staffing model for Vet Centers, standardize position description responsibilities, and award grants to address food insecurity among veterans and family members of veterans who receive services through Vet Centers or other VA facilities. 26.Supported Amendment Number 28 proposed by Rep. Kilmer (D-WA) that would remove the 180 day waiting period for hiring retired members of Armed Forces into military health system positions. 27.Supported Amendment Number 113 proposed by Rep. Correa (D-CA) that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to submit an annual report on women veterans access to gender specific services under arrangements entered into by the VA with non-VA medical providers for the provision of hospital care or medical services. 28.Opposed the following amendments proposed by Rep. Gaetz (R-FL), such as amendment number 2 that combating extremism in the ranks should not be a priority of the Department of Defense; amendment number 3 disparaging the Secretary of Defense; amendment number 7 that would weaken compliance of military members with the vaccine mandate; amendment number 8 that would impede DoD from making PCS moves when the reason for the PCS move is a military members disagreement with state or local law. 29.Opposed the amendment number 9 proposed by Rep. Van Duyne (R-TX) that would permanently suspend the vaccine mandate for DoD contractors. AFGE sent the following letters to Congress and the Department of Defense in connection with FY2023 NDAA: 1.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to House Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee and Senate Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee, on Defense Appropriation Member Request Priorities dated April 26, 2022. 2.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to House Appropriations Committee, Financial Services General Government Subcommittee and Senate Appropriations Committee, Financial Services General Government Subcommittee, on FSGG Appropriation Member Request Priorities dated April 26, 2022. Two issues related to carrying forward section 741 language continuing the government-wide public-private competition moratorium and proposing new language prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to interfere with collective bargaining agreements. 3.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to House Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee and Senate Appropriations Committee, Defense Subcommittee, copied to Office of Management and Budget and Secretary of Defense, and dated May 23, 2022, strongly opposing Administration proposal to replace section 8012 with section 8008, reinstituting arbitrary personnel caps. Interviewed on Federal News Network about letter and provided interview to Congress, DoD and OMB. 4.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to Defense Business Board dated May 27, 2022, on Upgrading DoD Civilian Talent Management. Letter copied to Congress. 5.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to House Armed Services Committee pertaining to FY2023 NDAA markup dated June 12, 2022. 6.AFGE Legislative Department Letter to House Rules Committee on H.R. 7900 Amendments dated July, 2022. Other NDAA related activities: Provided several questions for record to SASC Personnel Subcommittee Hearing on April 27, 2022, regarding military and civilian workforce programs in the Department of Defense. The questions for record were submitted by Senator Tillis related to the USD (P&R) total force management responsibilities and how increased use of the civilian workforce could reduce stress on the militarys high demand low density military occupational specialties when insufficient accessions were occurring resulting in military end strength reductions. The questions for record on the Departments plans to program and budget for services contracts and implement standard total force management guidelines to improve compliance with statutory privatization limitations were submitted by Senator Warren. There were later re-packaged for HAC-D Defense Budget Hearing to counter Ranking Member Calverts suggestion that the civilian workforce should be proportionately reduced with military end strength reductions. Government Funding: Lobbied for provisions in FY 2023 Defense Appropriations bill to address the needs of the federal workforce and for timely action throughout the appropriations process to avert the need for continuing resolutions or a government shutdown.

Client expense: $430,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Air Force, Dept of, Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Army, Dept of (Other), Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS), Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Navy, Dept of, SENATE, U.S. Marines