Sec. 201. Acquisition Review Board
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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: The Secretary shall establish an Acquisition Review Board (in this section referred to as the Board ) to strengthen accountability and uniformity within the Department acquisition review process, review major acquisition programs, and review the use of best practices. The Deputy Secretary or Under Secretary for Management shall serve as chair of the Board.
The Secretary shall also ensure participation by other relevant Department officials, including at least two Component heads or their designees, as permanent members of the Board. The Board shall meet every time a major acquisition program needs authorization to proceed from acquisition decision events through the acquisition life cycle and to consider any major acquisition program in breach as necessary. The Board may also be convened for non-major acquisitions that are deemed high-risk by the Executive Director referred to in section 709(b) of this Act.
The Board shall also meet regularly for purposes of ensuring all acquisitions processes proceed in a timely fashion to achieve mission readiness. The responsibilities of the Board are as follows: Determine whether a proposed acquisition has met the requirements of key phases of the acquisition life cycle framework and is able to proceed to the next phase and eventual full production and deployment. Oversee executable business strategy, resources, management, accountability, and alignment to strategic initiatives.
Support the person with acquisition decision authority for an acquisition in determining the appropriate direction for the acquisition at key acquisition decision events. Conduct systematic reviews of acquisitions to ensure that they are progressing in compliance with the approved documents for their current acquisition phase. Validate the acquisition documents of each major acquisition program, including the acquisition program baseline, to ensure the reliability of underlying data.
Ensure that practices are adopted and implemented to require consideration of trade-offs among cost, schedule, and performance objectives as part of the process for developing requirements for major acquisition programs prior to the initiation of the capability development plan, second acquisition decision event, including, at a minimum, the following practices: Department officials responsible for acquisition, budget, and cost estimating functions are provided with the appropriate opportunity to develop estimates and raise cost and schedule matters before performance objectives are established for capabilities when feasible.
Full consideration of possible trade-offs among cost, schedule, and performance objectives for each alternative is considered. If the person exercising acquisition decision authority over a major acquisition program approves the program to proceed beyond the acquisition decision event requiring a capability development plan before it has a Department-approved acquisition program baseline, then the Under Secretary for Management shall create and approve an acquisition program baseline report on the decision, and the Secretary shall— within seven days after an acquisition decision memorandum is signed, notify in writing the congressional homeland security committees of such decision; and within 60 days after the acquisition decision memorandum is signed, submit a report to such committees stating the rationale for the decision and a plan of action to require an acquisition program baseline for the program.
In this section, the term best practices has the meaning provided in section 4(b) of the DHS Acquisition Accountability and Efficiency Act. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 101 et seq. ) is further amended by adding after the item relating to section 835 the following new item: Sec. 836. Acquisition Review Board. .
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